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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator remark that the seamen's minds seem to be fixed on?
(a) The contrivances of man.
(b) Fish.
(c) Ships.
(d) Nature.

2. Besides Captain Littlepage, who else knows of Gaffett's story?
(a) Just the other survivors of Littlepage's shipwreck.
(b) Just Gaffett.
(c) No one - Gaffett himself is long since dead.
(d) Just the other survivors of Gaffett's shipwreck.

3. What did Gaffett and his companion discover after sailing away from the shipwreck?
(a) More suvivors.
(b) A town.
(c) The ship's cargo.
(d) An island.

4. What hobby of Elijah's surprises the narrator?
(a) He cooks.
(b) He crochets.
(c) He paints.
(d) He knits.

5. What does the narrator say about Gaffett's experience?
(a) She asks if hunger could have caused him to see apparitions.
(b) She says that too much time at sea can cause hallucinations.
(c) She says the stress of the shipwreck could have caused him to see apparitions.
(d) She asks if Gaffett seemed like an honest man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Elijah refer to his late wife?

2. How do Elijah and the narrator part?

3. How does the narrator characterize Captain Littlepage's reaction to Gaffett's story?

4. What happens to Joanna's half of the family farm?

5. What happened when Gaffett and his companion left "the waiting place"?

(see the answer key)

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