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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the captain attempt to sway the skipper's concentration?
(a) So he won't discover Legatt.
(b) So that he will stop telling his boring story.
(c) So he won't upset the captain's crew.
(d) So that he will not ask the captain questions.

2. How does the captain feel when he first orders the ship forward?
(a) He was torn, as though part of him was absent.
(b) He felt excited and whole.
(c) He was moved to tears, because this was the moment he'd been waiting for.
(d) He was exhilerated.

3. The chief mate tells the second mate, after the captain puts the ship on the other tack, that such a move is a great want of what?
(a) Judgment.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Common sense.

4. What time does the captain go up on deck after deciding Legatt should leave?
(a) Eleven o'clock p.m.
(b) One o'clock a.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Ten o'clock p.m.

5. For how many years does the skipper of the Sephora claim to have been at sea?
(a) 42.
(b) 18.
(c) 37.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the captain share Legatt's secret with?

2. How far in the future is the plan to maroon Leggatt set at the time of its making?

3. For what breezes does the captain say that he is going to look by night?

4. When does the captain change the ship's direction at the end of the story?

5. How do both the captain and Legatt feel about the near discovery?

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