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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. According to Junger, what type of shark can bite a man's leg off even after you cut off its head?
(a) Great White Shark.
(b) Mako shark.
(c) Thrasher Shark.
(d) Nurse Shark.

2. What is it that the author(s) of the note found in a bottle in Chapter One ask for via the note?
(a) The crew member asks that the families of all of the crew members be notified of the crew members' deaths.
(b) The crew member asks that whoever finds his note take all necessary steps to locate a rescue team to help him and his fellow crew members to shore.
(c) The crew member asks God to have mercy on him and his fellow crew members.
(d) The crew member asks that only his family members be notified of his death at sea.

3. Based on its contents, what human emotion is conveyed in the note in a bottle found in Chapter One?
(a) Joy.
(b) Love.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sadness.

4. Aboard the Andrea Gail, Billy Tyne shares quarters with which of the following?
(a) Bobby Shatford.
(b) Alfred Pierre.
(c) No one.
(d) Sully Sullivan.

5. According to Junger, which of the following types of fish is the most popular catch among early European fishermen fishing off the coast of Newfoundland in the New World?
(a) Mahi mahi.
(b) Flounder.
(c) Cod.
(d) Mackerel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in charge of sailing the Satori?

2. In retrospect, what is the best label to attach to Junger's narrative in "The Perfect Storm"?

3. Who does Junger pose questions related to vessel disasters to in Chapter One?

4. Who keeps records aboard the Andrea Gail?

5. Who owns the Andrea Gail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are there any portions of the book that challenge author Sebastian Junger's vision-based pledge to limit his narrative solely to fact?

2. Why is it likely that Sebastian Junger may have felt compelled to state that his use of the term, "Perfect Storm" was limited to a meteorological sense?

3. In Chapter 3, Junger offers an extended biographic sketch of Andrea Gail Captain, Billy Tyne. What can you write about Tyne's early life based on Junger's writing?

4. What information is Sebastian Junger relying upon when he states that, " The Falcon was careening wildly around the time that the note in a bottle was written"?

5. Based on Junger's writing, why is night baiting dangerous?

6. Aside from wanting to report the destruction and imminent sinking of his ship, what other reasons could the writer of the note found in a bottle along the coast of Massachusetts in 1895 have had for writing the note and placing it in a bottle?

7. There is a section in Chapter 4 of the book that Junger devotes to describing how Andrea Gail Captain, Billy Tyne, is having a bad fishing trip. What are some of the factors contributing to Tyne's bad trip status?

8. Are there any similarities or differences between the type of writing penned by famed Watergate co-authors, Carl Bernstein and Robert Woodward in "All the President's Men" and the writing of Sebastian Junger in "The Perfect Storm"?

9. Pursuant to a description in Chapter 4, if you were to have taken a tour around the Andrea Gail prior to its ill-fated trip, what would you have been likely to see?

10. What type of genre does Sebastian Junger drift to in his writing of "The Perfect Storm"?

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