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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Legatt drag behind him as he swims?
(a) His clothes.
(b) None of these.
(c) His bag.
(d) His gun.

2. Where was Legatt held during his incarceration?
(a) In a jail at the last port.
(b) In the brig.
(c) In his cabin.
(d) In the captain's cabin.

3. What shape is the captain's stateroom?
(a) An L.
(b) A hexagon.
(c) A plain rectangle.
(d) A T.

4. What sort of sail were the mysterious stranger and his victim setting when the murder occurred?
(a) A mizensail.
(b) A spinnaker.
(c) A reefed foresail.
(d) A mainsail.

5. From where does the Sephora hail, according to the second mate?
(a) London.
(b) Dover.
(c) Southampton.
(d) Liverpool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What faces the door of the captain's stateroom?

2. What bizarre, mysterious inquiry does the stranger make without being explicitly quoted in the text?

3. What word does the mysterious man use to describe the tone of the skipper when being relieved of his duties?

4. Which of the following is NOT suggested as being at the narrator's left hand at the story's beginning?

5. What does the chief mate find in his ink well?

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