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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What alternative does the mysterious stranger weigh against boarding the narrator's ship?
(a) Sleeping on the rope ladder.
(b) Strangling himself.
(c) Diving to the bottom of the gulf.
(d) Sinking from exhaustion.

2. How long was the last spell of the stranger's swim to the unnamed ship?
(a) Over a mile.
(b) A hundred yards.
(c) Eight hundred feet.
(d) Over two miles.

3. Who attempts to figure out the size and purpose of the Sephora during the officers meeting with the captain?
(a) None of these.
(b) The chief mate.
(c) The engineer.
(d) The second mate.

4. Over what uncanny discovery does the stranger reflect after hearing the captain's story?
(a) The ladder.
(b) An islet.
(c) The ship.
(d) His guilt.

5. Upon what do the hands of both the captain and the strange man rest?
(a) The rigging.
(b) The hatch.
(c) The skylight.
(d) The rail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as young, round-cheeked, quiet, and serious?

2. What does the stranger think of the captain?

3. On the niceness of what does the captain nonchalantly comment to the Sephora's skipper while they first speak concerning the disappearance of Leggatt?

4. What point of view is the story told in?

5. What does the captain doubt when he finds Leggatt standing bolt upright in his room after the incident with the steward on the fourth day?

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