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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Queeg wants things done?
(a) The wrong way.
(b) The right way.
(c) The Navy way.
(d) His way.

2. After a particularly cowardly performance by Queeg, Keefer calls him a what?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Yellow-bellied coward.
(c) Despicable.
(d) Poltroon.

3. When Maryk asks Keefer to go with him to see the medical officer of the Pluto, how does Keefer respond?
(a) He goes with him right away.
(b) He says he'll go as soon as Queeg is asleep.
(c) He's evasive and won't give a straight answer.
(d) He refuses to go.

4. What is the name of Keefer's date?
(a) Rollete Baskinworth.
(b) Tootsie Weaver.
(c) May Wynn.
(d) Lily Loom.

5. Keefer labels Queeg as a what?
(a) A sociopath.
(b) A split personality.
(c) A psychopathic personality.
(d) A major depressive personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Keith have to do to retrieve his gun's spring?

2. When Maryk comes to Keefer to talk about Queeg, what is Keefer reading?

3. When the Caine sails out of San Francisco, it is missing how many men?

4. After one of the sailors is reassigned, how long does Queeg stay in his cabin?

5. How many midshipmen gather for the review of the troops?

Short Essay Questions

1. List some of the irrational and terrible things that Queeg does in Chapter 15.

2. Why does the author use the title "Through the Looking Glass" for Chapter 1?

3. What explanation does Queeg give his superiors for losing the target?

4. What happened to Roland Keefer's ship?

5. Why does Queeg refuse to ballast?

6. What is the crew's first impression of Captain Queeg?

7. How does the New Jersey compare to the Caine?

8. What does Dr. Bird do to upset the board during his testimony?

9. How does Queeg determine that the strawberries are missing?

10. Why won't Queeg let Keefer leave the Caine to go visit his brother?

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