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

2. What did Moitessier do to ride out bad weather?
(a) Run.
(b) Anchor.
(c) Heave-to.
(d) Drop all sail.

3. What happened after Moitessier approached the town in Trinidad?
(a) A boat came to take his film.
(b) He signaled and sailed on.
(c) No one came out, so he left.
(d) He anchored.

4. What did Moitessier feel about the thing he thought back to on Christmas?
(a) Regret.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Fondness.
(d) Nostalgia.

5. What instrument helps Moitessier estimate his speed and distance traveled?
(a) The boom.
(b) The barometer.
(c) The tiller.
(d) The log.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Moitessier learn sailing junks as a youth?

2. What did Moitessier do when he was about 300 miles from the Cape of Good Hope?

3. What interaction did Moitessier have with the birds that followed his boat?

4. What did Moitessier remember the weather interpreter needing in order to interpret the weather?

5. Where had Moitessier sailed a junk?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Moitessier's interaction with people off the coast of Tasmania.

2. What were conditions like when Moitessier approached the Cape Agulhas lighthouse, and did he accomplish what he set out to do by approaching land?

3. What was the old Taicong legend that Moitessier recalled when he was approaching Cape of Leeuwin?

4. What were Moitessier's Christmas meditations?

5. What was Moitessier's reason for stopping in Trinidad?

6. What event does his interaction with the freighter make Moitessier think back to?

7. Describe Moitessier's interaction with a ship in Walker Bay, South Africa.

8. What legend did Moitessier think about after his incident with the porpoises?

9. Describe Moitessier's sailing experience in a junk.

10. Describe Moitessier's first knockdown on the round-the-world trip.

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