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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of refuge are the taverns around the fishing village in "The Perfect Storm" known to serve as for local fishermen?
(a) Homes away from home.
(b) Support group meeting places.
(c) Community centers.
(d) Orphanages.

2. In Chapter 1, off the coast of which state does a mackerel schooner's crew find a bottle with a note in it?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Maine.
(d) New York.

3. The manner in which Sebastian Junger writes Chapter One makes it resemble what type of narrative source?
(a) A United States Coast Guard incident report.
(b) A verbatim account of verbal exchanges that he recorded between a couple of patrons at "The Crow's Nest".
(c) A dream or a memory.
(d) A series of verbal exchanges between Junger and a crew member whom he has interviewed.

4. Which of the coasts listed below is known for the occurrence of a large number of freak wave "monsters"?
(a) The Caribbean coast around the Yucatan.
(b) The southeastern coast of Florida.
(c) South African coast between Durban and London.
(d) The South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil.

5. How does the Andrea Gail try to save herself in the midst of "The Perfect Storm"?
(a) By crashing into a sandbar.
(b) By "coming around" and placing herself broadside to the waves.
(c) By positioning herself in the direction of the current and being pushed away from the site of "The Perfect Storm".
(d) By keeping herself pointed into the worst of "The Perfect Storm".

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Sebastian Junger defines "larynospasm" as which of the following?

2. What is the name of Andrea Gail crew member Bobby Shatford's sister?

3. The highest waves ever recorded along the Scotian Shelf, or anywhere at any time according to author Sebastian Junger, occurred within "The Perfect Storm". How high were the waves to which Junger refers?

4. An anemometer measures which of the following?

5. In Chapter 7, Junger reports that mammals can survive up to one hour in very cold waters by which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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