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

2. What could potentially cause tension and frustration between the crew and their new captain?
(a) The captain would be giving orders to a crew that is younger than him.
(b) The captain would be giving orders to a crew that is older than he is.
(c) The captain would be giving orders to a crew that has more experience than him.
(d) The captain would be giving orders to a crew that does not speak the same language as him.

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

4. How long was the last spell of the stranger's swim to the unnamed ship?
(a) A hundred yards.
(b) Eight hundred feet.
(c) Over two miles.
(d) Over a mile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the captain remark on as he takes Legatt below the ship?

2. What did Legatt do with the articles he removed while swimming in the sea?

3. What does the captain watch leave once on board the ship?

4. What does the captain retrieve for himself from below decks while on his watch?

5. How did the captain react after Legatt's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the captain feel after the skipper leaves the ship? Why?

2. What causes the captain to comment on Legatt's health and appearance? How does Legatt respond?

3. For what reason might it be, as the captain claims near the end of Part I, that being conscious of his divided mind is worse than being mad?

4. How does the captain smooth over the situation with the steward so that Legatt is not discovered in his quarters?

5. How does the chief mate react to the perilous situation of the ship, and what does the captain do to him?

6. What most strongly fascinates the captain about the stranger?

7. What characterizes the actions of the stranger at the end of the first part?

8. What is significant about Leggatt's rebuttal of the Sephora's skipper's account of the setting of the reefed foresail?

9. What is significant about the faltering in Leggatt's speech when he says, "You have. From first to last"?

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

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