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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often did Moitessier use the self-steering device?
(a) Only during storms.
(b) Only in harbors and around other ships.
(c) Only when he was sleeping.
(d) Almost all the time.

2. Where on the Beaufort scale was the wind as Moitessier approached Cape Horn?
(a) Force 8.
(b) Force 6.
(c) Force 3.
(d) Force 7.

3. How is Moitessier progressing when he enters the Pacific Ocean?
(a) Cautiously.
(b) Very slowly.
(c) At a good pace.
(d) At record speed.

4. Whom did Moitessier say he pitied after he docked his boat?
(a) Wives who haven't seen their husbands in almost a year.
(b) Sailors who don't have wild places to sail to any more.
(c) The rats that go to ships to steal food.
(d) Locals whose livelihoods are disturbed by 'progress'.

5. What was Moitessier thinking about his competitors when he rounded Cape Horn?
(a) Whether they had made it.
(b) How much food they had.
(c) How much water they had.
(d) Whether they had been faster.

6. What did Moitessier toss to a small launch?
(a) His resignation from the race.
(b) Film and photos.
(c) Letters to his family.
(d) His log books and notes.

7. When Moitessier thinks about a crew that ran out of water, what did he remember them trying to survive on?
(a) Plankton and krill.
(b) Ice and fish.
(c) Dew from the sails.
(d) Flying fish.

8. Why did Moitessier ultimately decide not to round another cape?
(a) He wanted to see some friends.
(b) He was running out of food.
(c) He had been knocked down too many times.
(d) He was tired of fighting storms.

9. For what purpose did Moitessier put on his wetsuit?
(a) Scraping barnacles.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Fending off icebergs.
(d) Weathering a snowstorm.

10. What did Moitessier call civilization?
(a) The Sewer.
(b) The Monster.
(c) The Squalor.
(d) The Noise.

11. What were the glowing balls Moitessier saw on the staysail and in the sea?
(a) Plankton.
(b) Small fish.
(c) Dead squid.
(d) Jellyfish.

12. What did Moitessier fear about going back to civilization?
(a) Being alone.
(b) Being taken over.
(c) Being imprisoned.
(d) Being confused.

13. What did Moitessier dream about as he approached Cape Horn?
(a) Reefs.
(b) Fresh vegetables.
(c) Rocky shores.
(d) Ice floes.

14. What did Moitessier begin to use as he approached Cape Horn?
(a) The radio.
(b) Headlamps.
(c) Radar.
(d) A safety harness.

15. What is pitch-poling?
(a) Capsizing side-first.
(b) Using a spar to hold out the sails in light air.
(c) Putting the wind dead astern.
(d) Capsizing front-first.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Moitessier cross the path where he originally headed toward the Cape of Good Hope?

2. How long would Moitessier's water have lasted him?

3. What were conditions like as Moitessier was approaching Capetown for the second time?

4. What Bible passage were characters debating in the book Moitessier was reading?

5. Where was Moitessier tempted to stop in Capetown?

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