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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does the captain go up on deck after deciding Legatt should leave?
(a) Midnight.
(b) One o'clock a.m.
(c) Ten o'clock p.m.
(d) Eleven o'clock p.m.

2. What does the captain narrate as having dangerously abandoned him after the ship has started moving?
(a) Forethought.
(b) Self-consciousness.
(c) Unconscious alertness.
(d) Precaution.

3. What does the captain narrate as being "not barren of ingenious suggestions" while speaking with the Sephora's skipper?
(a) Necessity.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Amusement.
(d) Fear.

4. Where does the captain tell the crew to steer the ship after parting ways with Legatt?
(a) Further into sea.
(b) None of these.
(c) Into the stronger currents.
(d) Closer to the nearby islands.

5. What do the captain and skipper do once on board the captain's ship?
(a) They shake hands.
(b) The salute each other.
(c) None of these.
(d) They exchange pleasantries.

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

7. To whom is the Sephora's skipper anxious to give up his former first mate?
(a) Anyone.
(b) The law.
(c) The sea.
(d) The natives.

8. How many hills are on the island upon which the captain plans to deposit Leggatt?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

9. When is the only time the captain demonstrates strong decision-making abilities?
(a) When deciding to take the ship near the islands.
(b) When deciding to take the ship into the strong currents.
(c) When arguing with the chief mate about the direction of the ship.
(d) When deciding Legatt must leave.

10. Where does Legatt need to exit the ship?
(a) The captain's state room port hole.
(b) The front of the ship.
(c) The back of the ship.
(d) The open quarter-deck port.

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

12. What implement does the captain continually point at the scattered group of islands?
(a) A telescope.
(b) A compass.
(c) A sextant.
(d) A truncheon.

13. How far from the mainland does the Sephora's skipper estimate his ship is anchored in Part 2?
(a) Seven miles.
(b) Three miles.
(c) Five miles.
(d) Eight miles.

14. Who is the "secret sharer"?
(a) Leggatt.
(b) The chief mate.
(c) The sea.
(d) Fate.

15. Who does the captain begin to hate the sight and sound of?
(a) The second mate.
(b) Legatt.
(c) The chief mate.
(d) The steward.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the captain doubt when he finds Leggatt standing bolt upright in his room after the incident with the steward on the fourth day?

2. With what ships' murder stories does the chief mate compare the situation on the Sephora after the departure of the Sephora's captain?

3. What oddity of appearance had the captain affected all the fifth day of traveling?

4. Who is the captain referring to when he states, "Our hands met gropingly, lingered united in a steady, motionless clasp for a second...No word was breathed by either of us when they separated"?

5. Who says "I think I had come creeping quietly as near insanity as any man who has not actually gone over the border"?

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