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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is preserved by the small gesture of Leggatt when the captain returns to his room after the incident with the steward on the fourth day?
(a) The dignity of the chief mate.
(b) The silence of the crew.
(c) The secrecy of Leggatt's presence.
(d) The captain's sanity.

2. What does the chief mate postulate as the fate of Leggatt after the crew from the Sephora leaves the unnamed ship?
(a) Escape to the mainland.
(b) Vanishing.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Hidden on the tugboat.

3. What does the captain tell his officers, upon first speaking with them in the story, that he saw above the ridge as the sun went down?
(a) Men.
(b) The pagoda.
(c) Mastheads.
(d) An eagle.

4. How deep does the Sephora draw, according to the second mate?
(a) Ten feet.
(b) Fifteen feet.
(c) 80 feet.
(d) Twenty feet.

5. Why does the captain attempt to sway the skipper's concentration?
(a) So he won't discover Legatt.
(b) So that he will not ask the captain questions.
(c) So he won't upset the captain's crew.
(d) So that he will stop telling his boring story.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Legatt hiding when he is almost discovered?

2. What does the captain continue to refer to Legatt as through Part 2?

3. What is the name of the river from which the ship has just left at the story's beginning?

4. With what ships' murder stories does the chief mate compare the situation on the Sephora after the departure of the Sephora's captain?

5. What does the captain believe he sees floating in the sea very close to the ladder?

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