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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the captain's heart to fly into his throat once back on deck after parting ways with Legatt?
(a) How close the ship gets to land.
(b) How quickly the ship gains speed.
(c) The idea that Legatt is leaving.
(d) How quickly the ship is taken by a current.

2. What eccentricity unconsciously enters the speech of the captain to his first mate?
(a) Undulating volume.
(b) Mumbling.
(c) Whispering.
(d) Breaking off mid-sentence.

3. What color are the curtains around the captain's bed?
(a) Red.
(b) Gold.
(c) Gray.
(d) Green.

4. Which crew member comes from the Sephora?
(a) None of them.
(b) The second mate.
(c) The engineer.
(d) The chief mate.

5. Off what does Leggatt say he has been driven in his speech insisting he be marooned?
(a) Civilization.
(b) The Sephora.
(c) The earth.
(d) All ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Legatt happy to have toward the end of his swim in the sea?

2. When does the captain change the ship's direction at the end of the story?

3. What alternative does the mysterious stranger weigh against boarding the narrator's ship?

4. How long was the last spell of the stranger's swim to the unnamed ship?

5. What did the "reefed foresail" do for the Sephora and crew?

(see the answer key)

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