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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. Where does the captain find the ship's rope ladder?
(a) Over the front of the ship.
(b) None of these.
(c) Over the side of the ship.
(d) Over the back of the ship.

2. How deep does the Sephora draw, according to the second mate?
(a) Fifteen feet.
(b) Twenty feet.
(c) 80 feet.
(d) Ten feet.

3. What does the captain at first believe the man beside his ship in the water to be?
(a) A headless corpse.
(b) A floating barrel.
(c) A dead shark.
(d) A strange creature.

4. 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?
(a) Mastheads.
(b) An eagle.
(c) The pagoda.
(d) Men.

5. How does Legatt try to defend himself when he is accused of murder?
(a) He tries to blame another person.
(b) He has no defense.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He tries to say that it was an accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the captain go at the very end of Part I?

2. What was thoughtfully given to the ship by the provision merchant?

3. What position did the captain hold previously?

4. What does the captain discover when he tries to pull the rope ladder up?

5. What does the captain bring Legatt as he boards the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the chief mate of the unnamed ship refer discretely to his strange new captain, and for what reason?

2. What does the captain derive from the sincerely considered alternatives the mysterious man weighs?

3. What does the captain do while on deck alone at night while the rest of the crew sleeps? What keeps him awake initially?

4. How was the murder incited, as the stranger relates it?

5. What induces a state of self-possession in the captain while he faces the mysterious man in the water?

6. Describe the difference between what the captain feels when commanding the ship forward for the first time versus how he should be feeling.

7. The story begins with the captain coming aboard his new ship. Explain how the captain is feeling at the beginning of the story and how the author paints that picture.

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

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

10. What does the captain do after telling the crew to turn in without an anchor watch? Why is this significant?

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