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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who finds it necessary to find a logical reason for every occurrence that comes his way?
(a) The second mate.
(b) The captain.
(c) The chief mate.
(d) The engineer.

2. Back on the top deck, the night they see a strange ship approaching, how does the captain describe the atmosphere?
(a) Completely calm.
(b) Still.
(c) All of these.
(d) Profoundly silent.

3. What does the captain eat at breakfast?
(a) A biscuit.
(b) Toast with jam.
(c) A hard-boiled egg.
(d) Nothing.

4. What is the name of the ship approaching dangerously close to the crew's ship at the beginning of the story?
(a) Stephanie.
(b) Sephora.
(c) Tempora.
(d) Tiffanie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the stranger and the captain hear overhead after the stranger has finished telling his tale?

2. The captain narrates that, after sharing his own story with the stranger, the two men face one another with identical what?

3. What sort of pagoda does the story's narrator see from just off the mouth of the river?

4. From where has the mysterious man directly come?

5. Who awakens the captain the morning after he finds Legatt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the captain find the night he is alone on deck? How does the author describe this?

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

3. Who are the main officers on board? How is the reader introduced to these characters? How are they described?

4. How does the captain outwardly bear himself as the ship nears the island and almost certain doom?

5. Why is the captain's quarters comfortable enough for both grown men? Where do each of the men retire? What does this demonstrate?

6. Briefly, how does the narrator describe the setting of the Gulf of Siam, in which the story opens?

7. For what reason does the captain issue his order for all hands to go to sleep while he himself takes the watch alone?

8. How does the captain of the unnamed ship describe the skipper of the Sephora?

9. Why does the captain's order for all hands to turn in without setting an anchor watch astonish the rest of the crew?

10. Why does the captain remain emotionless and unexcitable throughout his and the skipper's conversation? Does it work?

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