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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. What does Miss Perry talk about at dinner?
(a) Her next vacation.
(b) Her hip surgery.
(c) The upcoming holidays.
(d) Indian lore.

2. What is attached to the harpooned fish that allows the fishermen to follow it in the water?
(a) Inner tube.
(b) Beer keg.
(c) Orange flag.
(d) Life boat.

3. What does May encourage Charlie to do on the trip?
(a) Use sunscreen.
(b) Stay sober.
(c) Catch lots of lobster.
(d) Get along with people.

4. Why does Tom not go along to empty the lobster pots?
(a) He has homework to do.
(b) May won't allow it.
(c) He has baseball practice.
(d) He has plans with a friend.

5. What does Parker call Dick?
(a) A whale of a fisherman.
(b) A wonderful father.
(c) A jerk.
(d) A non-player.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick think would improve the chances of catching swordfish?

2. What do Dick and Elsie do in the mud?

3. Who comes to look at Dick's boat in Chapter 14?

4. What name does Parker call Dick?

5. What does Elsie do in the crow's nest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dick misread the message that Elsie sends when she tells him to leave her with the secret of their affair?

2. What are the differences between how May and Elsie view Dick's boat project?

3. What is revealed about Dick's leadership skills on the documentary trip?

4. Explain Dick's internal conflict and how it relates to Parker's influence.

5. How does Elsie indicate that she is more interested in Dick and a relationship than he is regarding his not contacting her when he is out to sea longer than expected?

6. How does Dick know that Elsie had been in the patrol boat the night before when he and Parker were trying to complete the drug deal?

7. Compare and contrast Dick and Elsie's positions regarding legal activities.

8. How does the author use irony in the scenario on the dock with the cops and the drug-sniffing dog?

9. Describe the parallel that emerges between Dick and his deceased father.

10. How does the author show that May is probably aware of Dick's affair with Elsie?

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