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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through what straits did the stranger ask the captain of the Sephora to leave his door unlocked?
(a) The Gibraltar Straits.
(b) The Sunda Straits.
(c) The Angier Straits.
(d) The Java Straits.

2. Where does the captain take Legatt after he tells the captain his story?
(a) The crew's quarters.
(b) The brig.
(c) His state room.
(d) The storage area.

3. From whom did the second mate receive his information regarding the Sephora?
(a) A dream.
(b) The Sephora's first mate.
(c) The tugboat skipper.
(d) The captain of the Sephora.

4. What did the stranger see that he decided to swim towards?
(a) A waxing moon low in the sky.
(b) The North Star.
(c) The outline of a mast.
(d) The unnamed ship's riding light.

5. How does the skipper of the Sephora describe Leggatt?
(a) Not the sort of man to be his first mate.
(b) Seemed like just the sort of man to be his mate.
(c) A queer and violent fellow.
(d) A man of no gentlemanly character.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the captain bring Legatt as he boards the ship?

2. What does the stranger think of the captain?

3. What is the chief mate notably wearing when the captain decides he must show himself on deck?

4. What does the captain cite as the chief mate's "dominant trait"?

5. To what infamous killer does the stranger relate himself as in the thoughts of the skipper's wife?

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