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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What boat sent out a distress call to the Elusive in Part 4, The Deadliest Season: Fishing the Gulf of Alaska Aboard the Elusive and Watching as Tragedy Strikes the Alaskan Fleet: Chapter 3?
(a) The St. Patrick.
(b) The City of Seattle.
(c) The Epic.
(d) The St. Christopher.

2. With whom did Spike Walker get into an escalating argument in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 9?
(a) Sieg.
(b) Lars.
(c) Calhoun.
(d) Jonesy.

3. Where did the famous tragedy of John and Olaf take place?
(a) Chukchi Sea.
(b) Norton Bay.
(c) Kodiak Island.
(d) Shelikof Strait.

4. Who took glee in Spike's suffering from sea sickness in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 7?
(a) Lars.
(b) Sven.
(c) Capri.
(d) Sampson.

5. 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 fire.
(b) A famine.
(c) A crash.
(d) A strike.

6. What happened to Gerald Bourgeois' boat in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 9?
(a) It sank.
(b) It was sold.
(c) It was pulled to land.
(d) It was bombed.

7. In Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 7, Spike Walker writes that he enjoyed whose lack of micromanagement on the Rondys?
(a) Vern Hall's.
(b) Calhoun's.
(c) Lars'.
(d) Jonesy's.

8. Spike Walker writes in Part 4, The Deadliest Season: Fishing the Gulf of Alaska Aboard the Elusive and Watching as Tragedy Strikes the Alaskan Fleet: Chapter 1 that he recalled walking into bars and seeing bowls filled with what on the tables?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Money.
(c) Candy.
(d) Crab.

9. 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) Grateful.
(b) Agitated.
(c) Impatient.
(d) Disdainful.

10. 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) Manufacturing.
(c) Logging.
(d) Oil.

11. Who dropped into the ocean and managed to make his way to the life raft where other crew members waited in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 11?
(a) Mike Jones.
(b) Pete Knudsen.
(c) Steve Calhoun.
(d) Ralph Anderson.

12. Who was in the wheelhouse of the Williwaw Wind when distress hit in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 9?
(a) Susy.
(b) Spike Walker.
(c) Lars.
(d) Nels.

13. 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) Skippers.
(b) Restlessness.
(c) The hours.
(d) Weakness.

14. Who was able to assist the Amber Dawn in Part 4, The Deadliest Season: Fishing the Gulf of Alaska Aboard the Elusive and Watching as Tragedy Strikes the Alaskan Fleet: Chapter 5?
(a) The Coast Guard.
(b) The Epic.
(c) The Rondys.
(d) The Williwaw Wind.

15. What processing ship did the Rondys unload at in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 9?
(a) The Americana.
(b) The Alaskan White.
(c) The Epic.
(d) The All Alaskan.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom were the fishermen negotiating in Part 3, Working on the Edge: Fishing the Aleutian Islands and Points North Aboard the Rondys: Chapter 3?

2. 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?

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?

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

5. What boat had several crab pots become loose on deck from the storm in Part 2, The Bering Sea Season: King Crab Fishing Aboard the Williwaw Wind: Chapter 11?

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