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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Moitessier imagine as he slept while he was rounding Cape Horn?
(a) That he could not find his wife.
(b) That someone was looking for him.
(c) That his brother was telling him to sleep.
(d) That he had forgotten something important.

3. Who did Moitessier tell himself the figure in his daydream really was?
(a) The wealth of the ocean who supports people.
(b) The monster in the unconscious who leads men astray.
(c) The Fairy Tern who guides sailors.
(d) The brutality of the ocean that destroys people.

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

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

6. Why did Moitessier feel that he was sailing faster than he had on previous voyages as he approached Cape Horn?
(a) He had a better system of trimming sails.
(b) His boat is lighter.
(c) His boat is better-designed.
(d) He is more experienced.

7. What were the conditions when Moitessier approached Cape Horn?
(a) Calm.
(b) Stormy.
(c) Rough.
(d) Pleasant.

8. What was the danger of sailing the way Moitessier sailed as he approached Cape Horn?
(a) Breaking equipment.
(b) Taking on water.
(c) Pitch-poling.
(d) Capsizing.

9. What book was Moitessier reading in which characters debated a passage in the Bible?
(a) The Octopus.
(b) Their Eyes Were Watching God.
(c) Around the World in 180 Days.
(d) East of Eden.

10. How much water did Moitessier have after rounding Cape Horn?
(a) 80 gallons.
(b) 100 gallons.
(c) 60 gallons.
(d) 40 gallons.

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

12. What happened when Moitessier sailed too fast over waves?
(a) Water was in danger of capsizing.
(b) The boat rolled dangerously.
(c) The boat took on water.
(d) The boat surfed.

13. How did Moitessier think of the bulldozers and concrete mixers?
(a) As noisy, ungraceful machines compared to his steel ship.
(b) As instruments of progress bring civilization to a backward people.
(c) As slaves accomplishing diabolical capitalist motives.
(d) As robots paving over civilization.

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

15. What did Moitessier do when he was on deck as he approached Cape Horn?
(a) Looked for signs of land.
(b) Studied books for accounts of rounding Cape Horn.
(c) Wore his safety harness.
(d) Studied the seas for signs of gales.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Moitessier try to do but not do in the Falkland Islands?

2. How much fresh water did Moitessier have to drink every day?

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

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

5. Whose letters did Moitessier read about passing Cape Horn?

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