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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What deity's name is used in the exclamation of the mysterious man on hearing that the narrator is the ship's captain?
(a) Christ.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Odin.
(d) Jove.

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

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

4. What prompts the captain's first words to the mysterious man beside his ship?
(a) Surprise.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Anger.
(d) Fear.

5. What does the author compare the riding light to?
(a) The stars.
(b) A candle.
(c) A flame.
(d) The sun.

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

7. What duty does the captain fulfill the night he sends the crew to sleep?
(a) He keeps watch over the ship's direction.
(b) He watches for iceburgs.
(c) He keeps watch over the anchor.
(d) None of these.

8. To what animal does the captain compare the man after making eye contact?
(a) An ape.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) A dog.
(d) A fish.

9. Where was Legatt swimming when he began swimming toward the captain's ship?
(a) Toward another ship.
(b) Toward port.
(c) None of these.
(d) Toward an island.

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

11. What disturbs the captain's "comfort of quiet communion" with his ship at the story's beginning?
(a) His chief mate.
(b) Rough waves.
(c) An ominous noise.
(d) The stars.

12. What does the captain see in the beginning of the story?
(a) Islands on one side and ocean on the other.
(b) Ocean on one side and a port on the other.
(c) Islets on one side and ocean on the other.
(d) Islands on one side and a port on the other.

13. How did the stranger kill his victim?
(a) External trauma.
(b) Strangulation.
(c) Drowning.
(d) Stabbing.

14. Until what time does the captain, in an unprecedented move, propose to take a watch himself?
(a) One in the morning.
(b) Three in the morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Eleven at night.

15. At what location did the stranger ask to speak with the captain of the Sephora?
(a) Angora.
(b) Java Head.
(c) Japhora.
(d) Meinam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Legatt jump in the water and begin swimming?

2. What does the captain fetch for the mysterious man as the latter begins to board the ship?

3. What does the narrator say is at his right hand at the beginning of the story?

4. Who is described as a comical character with abundant whiskers?

5. Upon what do the hands of both the captain and the strange man rest?

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