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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the boat get to its location at the beginning of the book?
(a) By tug boat.
(b) It sailed.
(c) It was built there at the port.
(d) None of these.

2. What does the captain set to fixing as a repair of the breached discipline on his ship while on his watch?
(a) The poorly coiled aft ropes.
(b) The rope ladder.
(c) The precise height of the mast-flag.
(d) The foremast's rigging.

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

4. How long was the crew working practically night and day?
(a) Three days.
(b) Two days.
(c) Four days.
(d) A week.

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

6. What is the ship approaching the crew's ship carrying?
(a) A cargo of wood.
(b) Passengers.
(c) A cargo of coal.
(d) Gold.

7. Who has curiosity in his eyes when the captain comes on deck the morning after finding Legatt?
(a) The engineer.
(b) The chief mate.
(c) The second mate.
(d) The deck hand.

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

9. When did the murder take place?
(a) While the ship was docked at port.
(b) During a mutiny.
(c) On the open water.
(d) During a huge storm.

10. What does the captain hear under the poop deck?
(a) A moan.
(b) Chimes.
(c) A hand bell.
(d) Laughter.

11. What sort of pagoda does the story's narrator see from just off the mouth of the river?
(a) Paknam.
(b) Indian.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Korean.

12. What does the captain discover when he tries to pull the rope ladder up?
(a) It's broken.
(b) Both of these.
(c) It's too heavy to pull up.
(d) Neither of these.

13. Who tells the crew about the approaching ship at the beginning of the story?
(a) None of these.
(b) The captain of the other ship.
(c) The port authority.
(d) The tugboat skipper.

14. What does the captain close after he and the stranger hear the noise overhead?
(a) The lid of his musicbox.
(b) The door to his stateroom.
(c) The porthole.
(d) The door to his bathroom.

15. To what infamous killer does the stranger relate himself as in the thoughts of the skipper's wife?
(a) Cain.
(b) Brutus.
(c) David.
(d) Vlad the Impaler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the captain go at the very end of Part I?

2. Who is the youngest member of the crew?

3. What gives Legatt a sense of relief when he is swimming?

4. Where does the captain sit at his breakfast table?

5. How does the captain avoid speaking to the chief mate on deck the morning after finding Legatt?

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