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1. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND You are aboard the give-way vessel in a crossing situation. What should you NOT do in obeying the Rules?

Cross ahead of the stand-on vessel
Make a large course change to starboard
Slow your vessel
Back your vessel

2. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND On open water, a vessel fishing is in a crossing situation with a vessel sailing located on the fishing vessel's starboard side. Which vessel is the stand-on vessel?

The fishing vessel because it is to port of the sailing vessel.
The fishing vessel because it is fishing.
The sailing vessel because it is to starboard of the fishing vessel.
The sailing vessel because it is sailing.

3. INLAND ONLY You are meeting another vessel head-on and sound one short blast as a passing signal. The other vessel answers with two short blasts. What should be your next action?

Pass on the other vessel's starboard side.
Sound the danger signal.
Pass astern of the other vessel.
Hold your course and speed.

4. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND Which vessel does NOT sound a fog signal of one prolonged followed by two short blasts?

A vessel dredging
A vessel being towed
A vessel engaged in fishing
A sailing vessel

5. INLAND ONLY A barge more than 50 meters long would be required to show how many white anchor lights when anchored in a Secretary of Transportation approved "special anchorage area"?

1
2
3
4

6. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND What lights, if any, would you exhibit at night if your vessel were broken down and being towed by another vessel?

None
Same lights as for a power-driven vessel underway
A white light forward and a white light aft
The colored sidelights and a white sternlight

7. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND Which vessel must exhibit three white masthead lights in a vertical line?

Any vessel towing astern
A vessel whose tow exceeds 200 meters astern
A vessel not under command, at anchor
A vessel being towed

8. INLAND ONLY Under the Inland Navigation Rules, the term "Inland Waters" includes __________.

any waters marked by U.S. aids to navigation
harbors and rivers to the outermost aids to navigation
waters along the coast of the United States to a distance of two miles offshore
the Western Rivers, extending to the COLREGS demarcation line

9. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND Which vessel shall not impede the passage of a vessel which can only navigate inside a narrow channel?

A vessel of less than 20 meters in length
A vessel not under command
A vessel engaged in surveying
All of the above

10. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND The Rules state that vessels may depart from the requirements of the Rules when __________.

operating in restricted visibility
operating in a narrow channel
necessary to avoid immediate danger
the Master enters it in the ship's log