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

2. What theme was Moitessier reading on, now that he was docked?
(a) Whether progress had gone too far.
(b) The history of Southeast Asia.
(c) The development of the materials used on sailboats.
(d) The future of human progress.

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

4. What did Moitessier do when the barometer dropped as Moitessier approached Cape Horn?
(a) Lowered the genoa.
(b) Raised the staysail.
(c) Eased the mizzen.
(d) Reefed the main.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Moitessier pondering after rounding Cape Horn?

2. How did Moitessier make money to finance his sailing?

3. How much did sails for Moitessier's boat cost in 1968?

4. What had Moitessier's friends planted in the harbor?

5. What was the danger of sailing the way Moitessier sailed as he approached Cape Horn?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Moitessier's attempt to give word of his progress in the Falklands.

2. What was Moitessier reading as he approached Cape Horn?

3. What did Moitessier do that was dangerous but also exhilarating?

4. What was Moitessier thinking about in his reading of Steinbeck's East of Eden?

5. What is heaving-to?

6. What path did Moitessier take approaching Cape Horn?

7. What earlier trip did Moitessier think back to as he was rounding Cape Horn?

8. Describe Moitessier's rounding of Cape Horn.

9. Describe what Moitessier found when he reached Tahiti.

10. Describe Moitessier's idea of the unknown helper.

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