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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 is Junger able to assist readers to differentiate direct quotes emanating from the characters throughout his narrative in "The Perfect Storm"?
(a) He uses quotation marks only.
(b) He does not use quotation marks.
(c) He uses italicization and quotation marks.
(d) He uses italicization only.

2. Billy Tyne and the crew aboard the Andrea Gail pull in as much swordfish as the crew on which of the following?
(a) The Mary T.
(b) The Contship Holland.
(c) The Satori.
(d) The Eishin Maru.

3. After a month at sea, where does the Mary T make port?
(a) Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
(b) Worcester, Massachusetts.
(c) Gloucester, Massachusetts.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

4. Who is the crew keeping in radio contact with when disaster strikes the Andrea Gail?
(a) Christine Cotter.
(b) Adam Randall.
(c) The United States Coast Guard.
(d) No one.

5. The note in the bottle that is found floating along the coast of New England is directed to which of the following?
(a) God.
(b) Wife.
(c) Preacher.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year is the note in a bottle found that is mentioned in Chapter One?

2. According to Junger, fishermen enter their profession via which of the following routes listed?

3. Who is the Captain of the Mary T?

4. Why is Albert Johnston careful and concerned about being able to return from fishing expeditions?

5. What is the name of the vessel upon which it is established that the note in the bottle was written?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the value and mechanical status of the Andrea Gail as recorded between the late 1980's and the early 1990's?

3. 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?

4. What device does the skipper of The Satori use to navigate his way back home?

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

6. 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"?

7. According to Sebastian Junger, how does fisherman Howard Blackburn survive three days at sea?

8. 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?

9. What are the possible reasons that Chapter 1 is italicized in its entirety?

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

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