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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should the captain be feeling when he orders the ship forward?
(a) Nervous about his secret stow away.
(b) Absorbed with the feeling of his great ship moving under his command.
(c) Disappointed that he can't share this experience with his friend.
(d) Scared, but excited.

2. What is Erebus?
(a) The name of the nearby island.
(b) The name of the ship.
(c) A land of darkness under the earth.
(d) Where the dead are taken under the sea.

3. What order does Leggatt claim the Sephora's skipper never gave but claimed to have given to the captain of the unnamed ship?
(a) To pull in the topsail.
(b) To search for Leggatt.
(c) To set the reefed foresail.
(d) To unhand the murder victim.

4. What have Legatt and the captain never heard from each other?
(a) Their natural voices.
(b) Their full names.
(c) Their native language.
(d) They've never heard each other shout.

5. When does the captain change the ship's direction at the end of the story?
(a) When the ship can no longer handle the swirling currents.
(b) When he can no longer take the chief mate's arguments.
(c) When the ship can get no closer to land without crashing.
(d) After he knows Legatt is successfully off the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the captain alerted to after Leggatt has related the truth of the reefed foresail?

2. According to Legatt, who called for a "reefed foresail" aboard the Sephora?

3. How many gold coins does the captain give Legatt before he leaves the ship?

4. Who is most surprised by the ship's course change?

5. How far does the Sephora's skipper guess it is from the Sephora to the unnamed ship?

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