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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Junger, what year were spotter planes first used to locate fish?

2. What group, if any, provides Sebastian Junger with the basis upon which he creates the tragedy that strikes the Andrea Gail?

3. What serves as Sebastian Junger's source for conversations that take place among characters in "The Perfect Storm"?

4. According to weather reports, what type of foul weather condition is taking place in Bermuda?

5. What particular set of items do Chris and Murph gather to take with them aboard the Andrea Gail?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the vision that author Sebastian Junger has for "The Perfect Storm"?

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

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

4. Aside from conveying the ongoing destruction and imminent sinking of a ship via its written message stating, "...our rudder is gone, our cable is gone, God have mercy on us", what universal message and element does the note that is found floating in a bottle along the Massachusetts coast around 1895 carry into the 20th Century that is incorporated into the story of "The Perfect Storm"?

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

6. How are fishermen characterized in "The Perfect Storm"?

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

8. What is the general routine activities that crew members of the Andrea Gail engage in on the week that they travel up and the week that they travel back from their fishing trip?

9. What are the ways that Junger explains that taverns in Gloucester double as "orphanages" for local fishermen?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Since Junger did use a lot of factual material concerning topics such as how the establishment of Gloucester took place, explanations of nautical terms, and various subjects of a scientific nature, does that render the book to be more factual as Junger promised that it would be in the foreword of the book? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Captain Billy Tyne and Skipper Ray Leonard were both in charge of their respective ships. How are these two men alike? Do they run their ships alike? Do they treat their crews the same? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

How can it best be said that modern day fisherman in Gloucester carry on the traditions of their ancestors? Cite examples from the book.

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