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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. Which boat positioned nearby to the Andrea Gail changes its course shortly before "The Perfect Storm" strikes?
(a) No boat.
(b) The Winnipeg.
(c) The Allison.
(d) The Contship Holland.

2. Junger states that once flipped over due to storm conditions or overwhelming wave activity, the Andrea Gail was bound to have filled with water at which of the following temperatures?
(a) 50 degrees.
(b) 55 degrees.
(c) 45 degrees.
(d) 40 degrees.

3. What took out the windows in the Andrea Gail in the midst of "The Perfect Storm"?
(a) Exceedingly strong gusts of wind.
(b) Wind-driven rain.
(c) Waves.
(d) Intense air pressure that built inside the cabin of the Andrea Gail during "The Perfect Storm".

4. Who among the rescue crew along the New Jersey coast is rescued first?
(a) Jim Mioli.
(b) John Spillane.
(c) Rick Smith.
(d) Graham Buschor.

5. According to Junger, a "backing wind" moves counter-clockwise and always foreshadows what type of weather?
(a) Rough weather.
(b) Clear, sunny weather.
(c) A cloudburst.
(d) A wind storm beginning to head back to where it began.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ultimately Mioli, Ruvola, and Spillane are rescued using which of the following rescue gear?

2. Which of the following job titles identifies Judith's position aboard the vessel in which she rides out "The Perfect Storm"?

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

5. Who is in charge of the engine room aboard the Andrea Gail?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the United States Navy doing in relation to the detonation of nuclear bombs in the ocean about 40 years ago as Junger describes in Chapter 7?

2. Describe the four classifications that Junger writes about in Chapter 5 in relation to the method used by fishermen for gauging the velocity of a windstorm.

3. What does "wave energy rising to the fourth power during storms" mean, as explained in Chapter 6?

4. In Chapter 8, what is the reason that the two female passengers, Karen Stimpson and Sue Bylander, give the television reporter with respect to why their boat skipper, Ray Leonard did not want to leave his boat in the midst of "The Perfect Storm"?

5. What is the difference between "pitch-poling" and "floundering"?

6. Who are the Air National Guard rescuers written about in Chapter 9 who end up having to ditch the rescue helicopter in order to save their own lives as the attempt to rescue a Japanese sailor is underway along the New Jersey coast?

7. What method of transportation, as described in Chapter 8, is used to shuttle those who had been on The Satori to safety?

8. Describe the life-saving technique that Ernie Hazard used as it is explained in Chapter 7.

9. What is the extent of destruction to the cabin aboard the Eishin Maru due to the blows dealt by "The Perfect Storm" as described in Chapter 6 by eyewitness, Canadian Compliance Officer Judith Reeves?

10. In Chapter 5, what does Junger describe as the action that a boat crew takes when they hear reports that a storm is hitting a boat at sea?

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