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1. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND While underway your vessel enters fog. You stop your engines and the vessel is dead in the water. Which fog signal should you sound?

One prolonged blast every two minutes
Two prolonged blasts every two minutes
Three short blasts every two minutes
One prolonged and three short blasts every two minutes

2. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND You are operating in restricted visibility and hear a signal of a rapidly ringing bell followed by the rapid sounding of a gong. It could be a __________.

30-meter sail vessel at anchor
150-meter power-driven vessel aground
vessel in distress
300-meter power-driven vessel at anchor

3. INLAND ONLY A commercial vessel engaged in public safety activities may display a(n) __________.

alternately flashing red and yellow light
flashing blue light
flashing yellow light
alternately flashing blue and red light

4. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND At night, you are towing a partly submerged vessel, 20 meters in length and 4 meters in breadth. What lights must you display on the towed vessel?

A white light at the stern
Two white lights side by side at the stern
A white light at the forward end and a white light at the after end
Two red lights in a vertical line at the after end

5. INTERNATIONAL ONLY The International Rules of the Road apply __________.

to all waters
to any waters inside the territorial waters of the U.S.
only to waters where foreign vessels travel
upon the high seas and connecting waters navigable by seagoing vessels

6. INLAND ONLY You are the stand-on vessel in a crossing situation. The other vessel is showing an alternating red and yellow light. Which action should you take?

Stand on.
Heave to.
Alter course to assist.
Yield the right-of-way.

7. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND You sight another power-driven vessel dead-ahead showing both the red and green sidelights. The required action to take would be to __________.

carefully watch his compass bearing
start a radar plot in order to ascertain his course
alter your course to port
alter your course to starboard

8. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND What does the word "breadth" mean?

Greatest breadth
Molded breadth
Breadth on the main deck
Breadth at the load waterline

9. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND Which statement is TRUE, according to the Rules?

A vessel engaged in fishing shall keep out of the way of a sailing vessel.
A vessel engaged in fishing while underway shall, so far as possible, keep out of the way of a vessel restricted in her ability to maneuver.
A vessel not under command shall keep out of the way of a vessel restricted in her ability to maneuver.
A vessel not under command shall keep out of the way of a vessel engaged in fishing.

10. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND What describes a head-on situation?

Seeing one red light of a vessel directly ahead
Seeing two forward white towing lights in a vertical line on a towing vessel directly ahead
Seeing both sidelights of a vessel directly off your starboard beam
Seeing both sidelights of a vessel directly ahead