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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 the name of the ship approaching dangerously close to the crew's ship at the beginning of the story?
(a) Stephanie.
(b) Tiffanie.
(c) Tempora.
(d) Sephora.

2. How did the captain treat the skipper?
(a) With politeness.
(b) With animosity.
(c) With curious paranoia.
(d) All of these.

3. What does the captain set to fixing as a repair of the breached discipline on his ship while on his watch?
(a) The poorly coiled aft ropes.
(b) The rope ladder.
(c) The foremast's rigging.
(d) The precise height of the mast-flag.

4. What does the captain see in the beginning of the story?
(a) Ocean on one side and a port on the other.
(b) Islets on one side and ocean on the other.
(c) Islands on one side and ocean on the other.
(d) Islands on one side and a port on the other.

5. Roughly how far off the island does the captain plan to steer his ship in order that Leggatt may disembark?
(a) A quarter mile.
(b) One mile.
(c) Two hundred yards.
(d) Half a mile.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the skipper, who called for a "reefed foresail" aboard the Sephora?

2. How long was the last spell of the stranger's swim to the unnamed ship?

3. Where was Legatt held during his incarceration?

4. How does the captain feel when he first orders the ship forward?

5. Until what time does the captain, in an unprecedented move, propose to take a watch himself?

(see the answer key)

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