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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 is the name of the river from which the ship has just left at the story's beginning?
(a) Menimile.
(b) Meinam.
(c) Nessie.
(d) Narcissus.

2. What does Legatt tell the captain the person he murdered would do or not do?
(a) None of these.
(b) The person murdered wouldn't allow others to do their job.
(c) The person murdered wouldn't work.
(d) Both of these.

3. The shadows of what are flung far eastward by the setting sun, as described after the Gulf is named?
(a) Ropes.
(b) Men.
(c) Spars.
(d) Trees.

4. What does the captain fetch for the mysterious man as the latter begins to board the ship?
(a) Manacles.
(b) Water.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Food.

5. How does Legatt describe the person he murdered to the captain?
(a) As someone who deserved the end they got.
(b) As someone who he respected, but he could not prevent the murder from occurring.
(c) As someone who has no business to live at all.
(d) As someone who did not deserve to die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship approaching dangerously close to the crew's ship at the beginning of the story?

2. What does the stranger think of the captain?

3. Over what uncanny discovery does the stranger reflect after hearing the captain's story?

4. Where is the chief mate's ink well located?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the captain's interior disposition during the precarious moments in which the ship faces its greatest peril?

2. What does the captain ask the skipper after he is finished telling the story of Legatt and the murder? How does the skipper react?

3. What does the captain believe his first mate would think were he to see him speaking with the stranger?

4. What happened to Legatt as a result of the murder he is accused of committing? Does the author give any indication that this is out of the ordinary? Why or why not?

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

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

7. According to the author, what is a reefed foresail and what purpose did it serve on the Sephora?

8. When and why does the captain turn the ship to open sea?

9. Why does the mysterious stranger see himself being tried by a judge and jury something of an absurdity?

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

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