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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Legatt describe the person he murdered to the captain?
(a) As someone who he respected, but he could not prevent the murder from occurring.
(b) As someone who deserved the end they got.
(c) As someone who has no business to live at all.
(d) As someone who did not deserve to die.

2. What features does the captain notice about Legatt?
(a) His light eyes.
(b) His heavy, dark eyebrows.
(c) All of these.
(d) His small, brown mustache.

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 foremast's rigging.
(c) The rope ladder.
(d) The precise height of the mast-flag.

4. In what activity is the steward engaged when the captain goes below decks after the departure of the Sephora's skipper?
(a) Sweeping the floor.
(b) Polishing the silver.
(c) Repairing a door.
(d) Setting the table.

5. How many people are on deck at the beginning of the story?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What forces the captain to close his eyes while on deck steering the ship in a new direction?

2. Behind what had the stranger been hiding upon the captain's arrival in the stateroom?

3. Which side of the gulf does the captain narrate as being fringed with islands?

4. Who has curiosity in his eyes when the captain comes on deck the morning after finding Legatt?

5. The chief mate tells the second mate, after the captain puts the ship on the other tack, that such a move is a great want of what?

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