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

2. What did Moitessier imagine after he decided where he was going to end his voyage?
(a) That he was pulled overboard by a fish.
(b) That a flying fish landed on the boat.
(c) That he was eaten by a shark.
(d) That a seagull spoke to him.

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

4. What were Moitessier's sails made of?
(a) Tergal.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Nylon.
(d) Kevlar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Moitessier tempted to stop in Capetown?

2. What was Moitessier trying to avoid as he approached Cape Horn?

3. What did Moitessier remember his Chinese nursemaid telling him about as a child?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Moitessier ultimately decide not to round Cape Horn again?

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

3. What did Moitessier dream after he passed the Falklands?

4. What did Moitessier think about civilization as he approached Tahiti?

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

6. What is heaving-to?

7. Describe Moitessier's self-steering system, and when he would use it.

8. How much ice did Moitessier see on his trip around Cape Horn?

9. Describe the mysterious glowing balls Moitessier encountered.

10. Describe Moitessier's suit of sails.

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