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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. Aboard the Andrea Gail, Billy Tyne shares quarters with which of the following?
2. Where are the two passengers aboard the Satori headed?
3. What is one of the key questions that Junger asks himself in relation to the men aboard the ill-fated mackerel schooner?
4. Which of the time frames listed corresponds best to the setting of "The Perfect Storm"?
5. What type of boat is the Satori?
Short Essay Questions
1. What type of genre does Sebastian Junger drift to in his writing of "The Perfect Storm"?
2. 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"?
3. According to Sebastian Junger, how does fisherman Howard Blackburn survive three days at sea?
4. What can you write about the life of Bobby Shatford based on Sebastian Junger's writing in Chapter 2?
5. Why does Junger raise questions about Captain Billy Tyne's competence?
6. What is the vision that author Sebastian Junger has for "The Perfect Storm"?
7. 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"?
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. What is the value and mechanical status of the Andrea Gail as recorded between the late 1980's and the early 1990's?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is there a moral to the story that Junger presents in "The Perfect Storm"? If so, what is it? Cite how you were able to arrive at it.
Essay Topic 2
"The Perfect Storm" is interspersed with different types of factual information. Of all the factual and scientific information offered by Sebastian Junger, which particular type of information do you find most useful? Explain why.
Essay Topic 3
Canvassing all of the characters in "The Perfect Storm", who suffers the most emotional pain? Which way do they suffer? How long do they suffer?
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