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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Moitessier fantasize about at Christmas?
(a) Being at his childhood home.
(b) Being with his wife.
(c) Human charity.
(d) Peace with rats.

2. What did Moitessier want to send to the Sunday Times?
(a) A status report.
(b) A message.
(c) A package.
(d) A request for information.

3. What part of the freighter hit Moitessier's boat?
(a) The side.
(b) The boom.
(c) The bow.
(d) The stern.

4. What did Moitessier do when he was about 300 miles from the Cape of Good Hope?
(a) Stop for supplies.
(b) Stop for repairs.
(c) Throw stuff overboard to lighten the ship.
(d) Transmit his location to a passing ship.

5. What did Moitessier compare to a vibration on a boat?
(a) Grace.
(b) Covenants.
(c) The word.
(d) Purgatory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Moitessier capture in a bucket?

2. What did Moitessier fantasize about after passing Tasmania?

3. What had been used to make a jetty in the port at Trinidad?

4. What did Moitessier think about the waters between the Cape of Good Hope and Durban?

5. What parallel did Moitessier steer by as he headed to Cape Horn?

(see the answer key)

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