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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the content of the first cry from the crew concerning the stranger's intention in diving off the ship?
(a) Idiocy.
(b) Madness.
(c) Escape.
(d) Suicide.

2. Where is the captain as the story opens?
(a) In a row boat.
(b) On his new ship.
(c) On the tug boat.
(d) On the docks.

3. When was the order given for a "reefed foresail"?
(a) After the wave crashed over the Sephora.
(b) As the storm rolled in.
(c) Before the wave crashed over the Sephora.
(d) After the storm rolled in.

4. Who is the "secret sharer"?
(a) Leggatt.
(b) The sea.
(c) The chief mate.
(d) Fate.

5. What point of view is the story told in?
(a) Third person.
(b) Omniscient.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the murder committed?

2. Where does the captain take the ship after agreeing that Legatt should leave?

3. What implement does the captain continually point at the scattered group of islands?

4. How do both the captain and Legatt feel about the near discovery?

5. The captain says that his hesitation to let Leggatt swim away from his ship was a mere sham ____________.

(see the answer key)

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