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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the captain and the drunken man are fighting, what happens to the ship?
(a) The ship catches on fire.
(b) The ship's engines fail.
(c) The ship runs across something.
(d) The ship's sails go slack.

2. How much time elapses between when the ship has its accident and when Jim finds himself at the official inquiry into the incident?
(a) Ten days.
(b) Three months.
(c) One month.
(d) Two weeks.

3. What is the name of the house where Jim and Marlow spend an evening talking during the inquiry?
(a) Middle House.
(b) Manor House.
(c) Malabar House.
(d) Miramar House.

4. What is the name of the engineer who collapses from a heart attack aboard the Patna?
(a) Max.
(b) George.
(c) Steven.
(d) Ralph.

5. What is the name of the ship-chandlers with whom Jim finds work?
(a) Moore and Blake.
(b) Blake and Elliot.
(c) Elliot and Moore.
(d) Egstrom and Blake.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lifeboats are on the Patna before the incident under inquiry occurs?

2. How do the other three in the lifeboat feel when they realize that Jim - not the other engineer - is on the lifeboat?

3. Why can the Patna's captain and his fellow ship abandoners not free their lifeboat?

4. On Marlow's next trip to the region where Jim is working with the ship-chandlers, what does Marlow learn?

5. According to the Frenchman speaking to Marlow, what does one not die from?

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