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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ship on which Morgan is sailing?
(a) Magnum.
(b) Titanic.
(c) Annabel Lee.
(d) White Star.

2. What does Morgan steal from the house at Princes Gate?
(a) A painting.
(b) Cigars.
(c) Money.
(d) A Faberge egg.

3. What are the steerage passengers doing?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Crying.
(c) Shooting craps.
(d) Dancing.

4. What is the state of the water into which the two people will be hurled?
(a) High waves.
(b) Calm.
(c) Low tide.
(d) Raging.

5. What type of musician plays as the ship leaves Ireland?
(a) Bagpiper.
(b) Pianist.
(c) Flutist.
(d) Organist.

6. What item does the other person clean?
(a) Tabletop.
(b) Dishes.
(c) Boat.
(d) Glasses.

7. What do the women on the ship take as a bad omen?
(a) A red sky at morning.
(b) A dead bird on deck.
(c) Fish leaping out of the sea.
(d) A man blackened with coal dust.

8. Which of the following is NOT a topic of conversation at Lady Duff Gordon's dinner party?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Religion.
(c) Commerce.
(d) Fashion.

9. What is the stranger doing when the narrator comes upon him?
(a) Opening a bottle of wine.
(b) Hanging by his coat from a railing.
(c) Shooting pool.
(d) Running from the police.

10. Who is the childhood friend and college roommate Morgan encounters on board ship?
(a) Van Johnson.
(b) Van Halen.
(c) Van Hopper.
(d) Vandenberg.

11. Ginsberg states that the two overwhelming impulses in life are hunger and __________.
(a) Religion.
(b) Love.
(c) Greed.
(d) Sex.

12. Which of the following does Morgan NOT detect on his adventures below deck?
(a) Massive worm-holed beams.
(b) Fire in a coal bin.
(c) Stacks of lifeboats.
(d) Overworked crew.

13. What is the first name of the author of EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF?
(a) Bert.
(b) Beryl.
(c) Bennie.
(d) Berta.

14. Where does Morgan go to write the letter to his uncle?
(a) The main deck.
(b) The library.
(c) The stateroom.
(d) The captain's quarters.

15. What does Morgan learn is true when he is strolling on deck after midnight?
(a) The champagne is warm.
(b) There are no life boats.
(c) The captain has abandoned ship.
(d) There is a fire in a coal bunker.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does the story begin?

2. What is Scurra's prominent physical characteristic?

3. Morgan thinks that his uncle puts greater stock in _________ than in riches.

4. What is the name of the story's narrator?

5. Morgan calls the first class passengers _____________________________.

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