Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Ch 6-8

When a boy becomes an apprentice, he learns a _______.

• trade

• navigation

• cordage

• almanac

In Ropes and Hodges' ______ everything was listed from hardtack to coffeepots.

• catalogue

• postscript

• survey

• almanac

Everything about ____ is arithmetic.

• navigation

• trade

• surveying

• cataloguing

Nat could not tell where ____ begins, there is astronomy, trigonometry, and theodolite.

• surveying

• cataloguing

• translating

• harboring

By summer Nat had learned enough Latin to begin to ______ the Principia.

• translate

• survey

• navigate

• trade

Being indentured is like being in jail, if you run away, someone will bring you back.

• True

• False

It took Nat over 3 months to learn bookkeeping.

• True

• False

One of the most important things in a ship's record is the speed that has been logged.

• True

• False

The Theodolite is the kind of telescope surveyors use.

• True

• False

Lois, Nat's little sister, is studying her ______.

• ABC's

• New England Primer

• knitting

• sewing