View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, The Deadliest Season: Fishing the Gulf of Alaska Aboard the Elusive and Watching as Tragedy Strikes the Alaskan Fleet: Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Spike Walker took over the job of doing what in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 3?
(a) Running the cranes.
(b) Baiting the hooks.
(c) Lowering the crab pots.
(d) Throwing the hook to catch the lines.

2. What are attached to the ropes that are attached to the pots to allow the fishermen to lift them out of the water?
(a) Buoys.
(b) Docks.
(c) Harbors.
(d) Trail lines.

3. What had increased immeasurably according to Spike Walker in Part 4, The Deadliest Season: Fishing the Gulf of Alaska Aboard the Elusive and Watching as Tragedy Strikes the Alaskan Fleet: Chapter 2?
(a) The oyster fleet.
(b) The tuna fleet.
(c) The salmon fleet.
(d) The crab fleet.

4. What boat rammed into the side of the smaller boat Paul Lin, causing a great rip in its hull in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 4?
(a) The Epic.
(b) The Rondys.
(c) The Royal Quarry.
(d) The Williwaw Wind.

5. What processing ship did the Williwaw Wind make its way to in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 4?
(a) The Epic.
(b) The All Alaskan.
(c) The Alaskan White.
(d) The St. Christopher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't the Marion A send a distress signal in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 9?

2. The gigantic king crabs could have a leg span of over how many feet, as described by Walker in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 2?

3. The two survivors on the Master Carl were Mogoteaux and who?

4. What season ended in Part 1, The Greenhorn Season: Tanner Crab Fishing Aboard the Royal Quarry: Chapter 8?

5. One skipper was arrested in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 5 while trying to run his boat back to his home port where?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 344 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample