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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the greater United States referred to often by Alaskans?
(a) The lower 48.
(b) Down under.
(c) Nonalaska.
(d) The rest of the country.

2. Who was rescued by the crab boat Jeanoah in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 12?
(a) Pete Knudsen.
(b) Richard Majdic.
(c) Lars Nelson.
(d) Spike Walker.

3. Where had the Rondys anchored in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 3?
(a) Juneau.
(b) Prince Charles Island.
(c) Kodiak Island.
(d) Dutch Harbor.

4. Who on the Rondys was a high school football player who, as the father of a new baby boy, flew to Alaska to find a job to provide for his family?
(a) Steve Calhoun.
(b) Terry Sampson.
(c) Dave Capri.
(d) Lars Nelson.

5. What often proved too difficult to make the easy money of crabbing worth it, 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 hours.
(b) Weakness.
(c) Skippers.
(d) Restlessness.

6. How long had the boom years of crabbing in Alaska been going on 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) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

7. How did the crew aboard the Rondys feel about having to wait in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 9?
(a) Agitated.
(b) Disdainful.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Impatient.

8. Spike Walker ran into a man he had worked with in what industry in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 4?
(a) Canning.
(b) Oil.
(c) Logging.
(d) Manufacturing.

9. What did the crew of the Rondys learn upon anchoring in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 3?
(a) A famine.
(b) A strike.
(c) A fire.
(d) A crash.

10. Where was Gerald Bourgeois found in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 9?
(a) On his ship.
(b) On a raft.
(c) Dead at sea.
(d) An island.

11. In Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 10, Spike heard a story of a fisherman who was saved by the luck of what?
(a) A four-leaf-clover.
(b) A letter.
(c) A coin toss.
(d) An albatross.

12. According to Spike Walker, how much money did the crew net for the year in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Summary 2?
(a) $60,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $40,000.
(d) $100,000.

13. Who ignored requests to come to the wheelhouse in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 9?
(a) Mike.
(b) Jonesy.
(c) Lars.
(d) Spike.

14. Where did the Williwaw Wind return in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 12?
(a) The Bering Sea.
(b) Kodiak Island.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Juneau.

15. What was needed to rescue the ship in Part 4, The Deadliest Season: Fishing the Gulf of Alaska Aboard the Elusive and Watching as Tragedy Strikes the Alaskan Fleet: Chapter 4?
(a) A patch.
(b) An anchor.
(c) A stronger pump.
(d) A fire hose.

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. What crab boat rescued the crew of the Key West?

3. Thousands of what crashed into the Rondys in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 12?

4. What is another name for Opelio Crab?

5. Spike Walker describes how one man attempted to do what to a fellow crewman before jumping overboard in Part 4, The Deadliest Season: Fishing the Gulf of Alaska Aboard the Elusive and Watching as Tragedy Strikes the Alaskan Fleet: Chapter 2?

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