🔍 Key Concepts

• Compare the overall shape of each knot (H, J, L, M) to the classic illustration of a carrick bend in your study guides. • A carrick bend is used to join two lines together and typically lies flat with a woven, interlaced pattern (four main crossing points). • Notice which option shows two separate standing parts and two separate bitter ends, rather than a stopper, whipping, or hitch on an object.

💭 Think About

• For each choice (H, J, L, M), ask: is this knot clearly joining two separate lines, or is it securing a single line to itself or to an object? • Look closely at which knot has a square, basket‑weave look where the parts alternately go over and under, and the standing parts emerge on opposite sides of the knot. • Identify which illustrations show whippings or seizings (used to bind strands) or hitches (around posts, rings, or hooks) and eliminate those from consideration for a bend.

✅ Before You Answer

• Confirm that the knot you pick is a bend (joining two ropes), not a whipping, seizing, hitch, or stopper knot. • Check that the final knot lies relatively flat and has an interwoven pattern with the parts passing alternately over and under at each crossing. • Verify that the standing parts come out roughly in a straight line from opposite sides of the knot, a key visual feature of a carrick bend.