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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of Indians chased the Spray in the Bay?
(a) Fortesque.
(b) Amazonian.
(c) Apache.
(d) Anasazi.

2. What is the name of Joshua Slocum's sister?
(a) Nonie.
(b) Naomi.
(c) Nancy.
(d) Natalie.

3. What is the name of the valley visible from the Slocum house?
(a) Chesapeake.
(b) Annapolis.
(c) Hudson.
(d) Cape May.

4. What was the name of the bay that was located nearby?
(a) Worley.
(b) Fundy.
(c) Prince Edward.
(d) Victoria.

5. What item did savages steal from Slocum?
(a) Fishing equipment.
(b) Beer.
(c) Tacks.
(d) Clothes.

6. In what year was Slocum born?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1844.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1850.

7. What was the name of the boat purchased from the captain?
(a) Spray.
(b) Aurora Borealis.
(c) Northern Light.
(d) Seawitch.

8. What gift did the captain present to Slocum?
(a) Beer.
(b) Carpet tacks.
(c) Salted cod.
(d) Fresh water.

9. What is bacalhao?
(a) Knife.
(b) Shoe.
(c) Fish.
(d) Mast.

10. Slocum would eventually follow the route of which famous explorer?
(a) Magellan.
(b) Columbus.
(c) Erikson.
(d) Vespucci.

11. What was the name of the captain who made Slocum an offer he couldn't refuse?
(a) Cook.
(b) Everly.
(c) Pierce.
(d) Handel.

12. Slocum had always longed to be a:
(a) Master shipbuilder.
(b) Photographer.
(c) Painter.
(d) Chef.

13. What was the name of the man who led the pirates?
(a) Bluebeard.
(b) Captain Bligh.
(c) Black Pedro.
(d) Blackbeard.

14. Eventually, Slocum managed to right his course and navigate through which Channel?
(a) Magellan.
(b) Cockburn.
(c) English.
(d) Columbus.

15. Slocum says his father could make anything as long as he had which of the following:
(a) Knife.
(b) Determination.
(c) Hammer.
(d) Vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much would it have cost Slocum to join the union to work at the shipyard?

2. What is a williwaw?

3. The crew gave Slocum a gift of milk and ______.

4. What was the name of the first boat co-owned by Slocum?

5. What previous trick had Slocum used to confuse Black Pedro?

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