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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many sovereigns does the captain give to Leggatt?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

4. What order does Leggatt claim the Sephora's skipper never gave but claimed to have given to the captain of the unnamed ship?
(a) To set the reefed foresail.
(b) To unhand the murder victim.
(c) To pull in the topsail.
(d) To search for Leggatt.

5. Which of the following is NOT suggested as being at the narrator's left hand at the story's beginning?
(a) Blockhouses.
(b) A small ship.
(c) Towers.
(d) Stone walls.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that only the sky and the sea will be ________to the voyage and task of he and his crew.

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

3. When does the captain first have the opportunity to give orders to move the boat forward?

4. What day is it when the men from the Sephora come aboard the unnamed ship?

5. What does the captain do the night they see a strange ship approaching?

(see the answer key)

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