View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the next youngest member of the crew?
(a) The captain.
(b) The engineer.
(c) The chief mate.
(d) The second mate.

2. How far is the Sephora from the nearest real land when the stranger is relating his story to the captain?
(a) Two miles.
(b) Eight miles.
(c) Five miles.
(d) Six miles.

3. What does the captain hear when he is below the night they see a strange ship approaching?
(a) The sound of a small row boat approaching.
(b) The sound of his crew snoring.
(c) The sound of whispers.
(d) The sound of the boat creaking.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the captain take Legatt after he tells the captain his story?

2. What does the captain tell his officers, upon first speaking with them in the story, that he saw above the ridge as the sun went down?

3. What position had Legatt held on his ship?

4. At what does the stranger stare through the porthole while relating his tale to the captain?

5. What does the stranger think of the captain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterizes the account of the stranger's escape from the Sephora to the unnamed ship?

2. What does the captain tell the skipper at the end of the skipper's story? How does the skipper react? Why?

3. What does the captain give Legatt as they part ways? What significance does one item have?

4. What plan do Legatt and the captain devise for Legatt's escape? Does the author make the plan seem feasible?

5. What is particularly dangerous about the captain's plan to help Leggatt escape?

6. Who finally suggests that it is necessary for Legatt to leave the ship? Why? How does the other man feel about this?

7. What is the significance of the statement of the stranger that, "It's not so easy for a swimmer like me to commit suicide by drowning"?

8. What is the captain told toward the end of part one that signifies potential trouble for the ship and crew?

9. What conversation takes place between Legatt and the captain before Legatt comes on board the ship? What does Legatt notice about the captain? Why?

10. It is clear what purpose the captain serves in Legatt's life. What purpose does Legatt serve the captain?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,127 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample