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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What book was Moitessier reading in which characters debated a passage in the Bible?
2. What did Moitessier fear about going back to civilization?
3. What is pitch-poling?
4. Where did Moitessier go with the other sailors when the weather was bad?
5. What land did Moitessier find as he rounded Cape Horn?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is heaving-to?
2. Why did Moitessier sail the capes in the order he did?
3. What did Moitessier dream after he passed the Falklands?
4. What was Moitessier thinking as he approached Capetown for the second time?
5. What path did Moitessier take approaching Cape Horn?
6. What was Moitessier thinking about as he reached the path of his original transit from Trinidad to the Cape of Good Hope?
7. Why did Moitessier ultimately decide not to round Cape Horn again?
8. Describe Moitessier's rounding of Cape Horn.
9. What did Moitessier do that was dangerous but also exhilarating?
10. Describe Moitessier's attempt to give word of his progress in the Falklands.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Moitessier's history as a sailor, and characterize the place this trip had in his development as a sailor. What, if anything, was he intent on learning or proving by making this trip?
Essay Topic 2
What is the importance of Moitessier's boat being named Joshua? What kind of personality did this ascribe to his ship, and what kind of companion did he have in a boat named Joshua? Did he practice personification in other places, or was the Joshua the only named companion he had in the 10-month journey? What does this tell us about how Moitessier related to other people?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the plot of The Long Way. How does Moitessier maintain dramatic tension in order to keep a reader interested and curious about the scene and what will come next? How does he balance the need to interest a reader with the desire to slow down and meditate and consider the meaning of things?
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