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Knots & Bends 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Sheet Bend used for?

a)

Creating a loop

b)

Tying a fixed knot

c)

Shortening a rope

d)

Joining two ropes

2.

What is important to maintain while tying a Sheepshank knot?

a)

Tension on both sides

b)

Using different ropes

c)

Looseness in the knot

d)

Adding extra loops

3.

What is the purpose of a Bowline knot?

a)

Creating a fixed loop

b)

Joining two ropes

c)

Shortening a rope

d)

Tying a slip knot

4.

Which knot is considered very useful because it is simple to tie, strong, and secure?

a)

Bowline

b)

Sheet Bend

c)

Sheepshank

d)

Maritime knot

5.

How do we further secure a bowline?

(You may choose more than 1 option)

a)

We can tie a slipknot before inserting the working end into it

b)

We can tie a stopper knot

c)

We can insert the working end into the final loop

d)

We can tie 2 half hitches around the loop

e)

We can tie a loop in the middle of a rope instead of at the end

6.

Which of the following is the practical application of a Bowline?

a)

It is often used to secure a rope to a ring

b)

Tying of guylines in pioneering

c)

It is often used to secure a ring to a rope

d)

Forms loop for the improvised pulley in Flagstaff

7.

Which of the following is the function of Sheepshank?

a)

To shorten ropes without cutting them

b)

To shorten ropes without cutting, especially ropes of small diameter

c)

To shorten the rope without cutting, and to bypass worn section of the roped

8.

What knot is this?

a)

Rolling hitch

b)

Noose

c)

Alpine Butterfly knot

d)

Bowline

9.

What's the purpose of the sheet bend knot?

a)

For fun!

b)

Tying a larger rope to a smaller rope

c)

To make a sliding knot

d)

Advice to fold your bedsheets

10.

To secure a boat to a dock (or berth) that has a bitt, what would you use?

a)

sheet bend knot

b)

clove hitch knot

c)

bowline knot

d)

figure eight knot

11.

What is this knot?

a)

reef knot

b)

bowline knot

c)

clove hitch

d)

sheet bend

12.

Which of these knots is a sheet bend?

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

What Knot is This

a)

Square Knot

b)

Sheepshank

c)

Sheet Bend

d)

Sheep Knot

14.

What is this knot

a)

Sheepshank

b)

Sheep Bend

c)

Sheep Knot

d)

Square knot

15.

What Knot is this

a)

Boline

b)

Bowline

c)

Sheep Bend

d)

Sheep Band