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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who gives the signal for the attackers to begin their assassination attempt on Jim?
(a) Kassim.
(b) Cornelius.
(c) Sherif Ali.
(d) Cornelius' stepdaughter.

3. On Marlow's next trip to the region where Jim is working with the ship-chandlers, what does Marlow learn?
(a) That Jim has run away once again.
(b) That Jim has been killed.
(c) That Jim has bought his own ship.
(d) That Jim has stolen from the ship-chandlers.

4. When the two travelers part, the person accompanying Marlow asks when they shall meet again. What is Marlow's response?
(a) Never.
(b) In December.
(c) Next week.
(d) In three months.

5. According to Marlow, when does Jim receive the old, yellow letter?
(a) A few days before the inquiry.
(b) A few days before the Patna voyage.
(c) A few days before the assassination attempt.
(d) A few days before meeting De Jongh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the principal shipping master?

2. The night of the assassination attempt, what does Jewel ask Jim to do?

3. What does Jim contemplate doing while in the lifeboat, but does not do because he does not want to give the other three men in the lifeboat the satisfaction?

4. How many members of Brown's crew come ashore in the hopes of catching the natives unaware?

5. About what time does the rescuing ship find the Patna?

(see the answer key)

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