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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What order does Jim receive from the captain when the captain stops fighting with the drunken man?
(a) To send an SOS.
(b) To not alert any of the passengers.
(c) To wake the first mate.
(d) To stop the engines.

2. When does the attack on Ali's compound - as plotted by Jim - begin?
(a) At sunset.
(b) At midnight.
(c) At sunrise.
(d) At midday.

3. When Jim and his attackers reach their destination, what does Jim order his attackers to do?
(a) Sit back to back in the kitchen.
(b) Go below deck.
(c) Jump into the river.
(d) Turn themselves into the authorities.

4. What does Jewel reveal when she is at Stein's home with Tamb' Itam?
(a) That Jim has been arrested.
(b) That Jim has been killed.
(c) That Jim has left.
(d) That Jim has proposed.

5. When Jim sees Marlow face-to-face at the ship-chandlers, what does Marlow ask Jim?
(a) Why he wrote for the inquiry's findings.
(b) Why he left his previous position.
(c) Why he joked about the Patna.
(d) Why he revealed his Patna history.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time elapses between when the ship has its accident and when Jim finds himself at the official inquiry into the incident?

2. After leaving Doramin's house, with whom does Jim take up lodging in Patusan?

3. How does Jim characterize his stay in his new lodging arrangement after he leaves Doramin's home?

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

5. How many years elapse after Jim first leaves for Patusan and when Marlow is first able to visit Jim?

(see the answer key)

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