Story A Questions

Questions on Story A


1 .The scientist had never been seasick before.

2.The purpose of the voyage was primariiy pleasure and sight-seeing.


3.The story lists various incidents which follow the killing of a bird.

4.After the scientist shot the albatross the troubles happened.

5.No scientist’s name was mentioned in the story.

6.The scientist was surprised to see a white albatross in the vicinity.
7.The scientist was not from a university or college.­8.The scientist asked the captain for permission to kill the bird.

9.It took the crew members less than five minutes to reel in the seventeen hundred feet of cable,

1O.A lost gear made it necessary for the ship to return to the west coast.

11 .Fortunately, the net cables never fouled up.

12.A ship was chartered by a scientist.

13.The net was ripped in the bottom of the sea.

14.The cook was fired because of his objection to the killing of the bird.

15 .Larson broke a leg.

1 6.After the bird was killed the mishaps occurred.

17.The white albatross was sighted near Australia.

1 8.When an albatross was sighted flying near the ship the scientist asked permission to kill it.

19.The net was not damaged.

20.The troubles happened after the albatross was killed.

21 .The scientist was less influenced by the old sea superstition than were the members of the crew.

22.The ship, propelled by a motor, was in difficulty after the gear broke.
23 .Permission to kill the bird was given by the captain.

24. Seventeen hundred feet of cable were reeled in by hand.

25 .The bird that was killed was an albatross.

26.The sailors were not disturbed when the scientist violated the old sea superstition.

27.The person who fell down a hatch ladder was a man named Larson.

28.Larson broke one of the ribs of the ship.

29.The scientist did not want the bird as a specimen for the university museum.
30.The naturalist did not charter the ship.

31 .The scientist did not asked the crew for permission to kill the albatross.

32.The scientist attention was called to the old sea superstition that bad luck follows the killing of the white albatross.

33.The naturalist did not ask permission to kill the bird on order to secure it as a museum specimen.

34.The scientist expected to see a white albatross in that vicinity.

35 .The scientist was influenced by the warning of the crew.

36.The cook did not leave his job.

37.The captain broke one of his ribs.

38 .The bird was killed against the captains orders.

3 9.The crew members were only to frighten the scientist by protesting against the killing of the bird.

40.A lost gear was not the reason the ship landed.

41 .The crew protested against the killing of the bird.

42.Jackie Larson became seasick before the albatross was killed.

43.The scientist’s aide was Jackie Larson.

44.The bird was not killed.

45.The bird was killed by scientist.

46.The cook helped reel in the seventeen hundred feet of cable.

47.While the crew men were undoubtedly upset by the scientist’s action the cook was the only man to actually leave his job.

48.A scientist fell down a hatch ladder.