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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What goes missing in Chapter 26?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) The key to the icebox.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Maryk's secret log.

2. What does Willie see on the radar when he goes to take a look?
(a) A colossal sized storm.
(b) Nothing but sea spray.
(c) Twenty blips that look like submarines.
(d) Nothing because they are broken.

3. What reason does Willie give for Stilwell's mental collapse?
(a) The boat almost going down in the typhoon.
(b) Queeg's persecution.
(c) His stateside leave being suspended.
(d) The loss of his marriage.

4. How does Willie feel when he reads that he's being recommended for a court martial?
(a) He feels like May just broke up with him.
(b) He feels like a worker who has just been fired.
(c) He feels like he did when his father died.
(d) He feels like he's reading a doctor's report that he's dying.

5. Queeg tells Keefer he thinks the thief is who?
(a) Whittaker.
(b) Urban.
(c) Stilwell.
(d) Keith.

6. Who is Challee's first witness?
(a) Willie Keith.
(b) Queeg.
(c) Keefer.
(d) Stilwell.

7. Which potential witness is left in a vegetative state after shock therapy?
(a) Jellybelly.
(b) Stilwell.
(c) Keith.
(d) Queeg.

8. Who is captain of the Caine when the Kamikaze hits?
(a) Keefer.
(b) White.
(c) De Vriess.
(d) Keith.

9. Who tells Willie that the mess boys ate the strawberries?
(a) Maryk.
(b) Ducely.
(c) Harding.
(d) Keefer.

10. How many days before the war ends does the Caine finally sweep a mine?
(a) Thirty days.
(b) Seventeen days.
(c) Two days.
(d) Five days.

11. From which book does this quote come? "Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most."
(a) Nietze's "Beyond Good and Evil."
(b) Voltaire's "Socrates."
(c) Pascal's "Pensees."
(d) "The Republic" by Plato.

12. Halsey's ship has what that is as big as the Caine's main guns?
(a) An anchor.
(b) Deck guns.
(c) A masthead.
(d) A pelican hook.

13. In what did Queeg acknowledge that Maryk was an excellent sailor?
(a) In a recommendation for a medal.
(b) In his meeting with Admiral Halsey.
(c) In his recommendation for promotion.
(d) In his two fitness reports.

14. How long is Willie on the bridge while the typhoon brushes Tokyo?
(a) 12 hours.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) 48 hours.
(d) 30 hours.

15. Who is the last Captain of the Caine?
(a) Willie Keith.
(b) Captain White.
(c) Tom Keefer.
(d) Captain Queeg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can become useless in a typhoon?

2. What does Barney get Dr. Lundeen to admit is the problem with Queeg?

3. Who is the grand historical figure in Willie's life?

4. How many keys does Willie take to the captain after Willie interviews all the men in his department?

5. Whose wife keeps having dreams about typhoons?

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