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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 light eyes.
(b) His small, brown mustache.
(c) His heavy, dark eyebrows.
(d) All of these.

2. What does the captain cite as the chief mate's "dominant trait"?
(a) Convoluted discourse on political matters.
(b) Earnest consideration of all things.
(c) Meddling in affairs not his own.
(d) Insincere appearance of consideration.

3. What oddity of appearance had the captain affected all the fifth day of traveling?
(a) Wearing a bizarre, tall, and stiff hat.
(b) Not changing from his sleeping suit.
(c) Having only shaven half his face.
(d) Wearing India-rubber boots despite calm weather.

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

5. Next to what mythological place is Erebus, to which the captain relates the situation of his ship, located according to the proper myth?
(a) Hades.
(b) Valhalla.
(c) Naraka.
(d) Olympus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says the threat of discovery "hung like a sword over our heads"?

2. What does the steward do with the door to the captain's room after first visiting him in the morning?

3. On the niceness of what does the captain nonchalantly comment to the Sephora's skipper while they first speak concerning the disappearance of Leggatt?

4. What keeps the captain from sleeping the night they see a strange ship approaching?

5. Where do the two captains speak to one another at the beginning of Part 2?

(see the answer key)

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