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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the captain and skipper do once on board the captain's ship?
2. At what hour does the captain instruct the chief mate to put the ship round after the incident with the steward on the fourth day?
3. What story does the skipper share with the captain?
4. What risks are Legatt and the captain taking by keeping Legatt hidden?
5. What eccentricity unconsciously enters the speech of the captain to his first mate?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examining the whole of the text, write an essay analyzing the concepts of self and the second self that permeate the thinking and narration of the captain. What is the self? What does it mean to have a self? In what does the "self" consist? What would it mean to have a "second self"? Why is this concept strange? Does the average person have similar experiences to that of a second self? How do such experiences contrast with those of the captain and Leggatt in The Secret Sharer? How are they similar? In what ways do the two men share in an identity?
Essay Topic 2
Part of what distinguishes the unnamed captain and Leggatt from the rest of the characters in the book is that they are eminently competent at what they are doing. Compose an essay which analyzes the contrasts between the captain and Leggatt with the rest of the characters, insofar as the former two demonstrate an excellence of ability and the latter do not. In what realms of activity are the two men superior to the others? What words and actions demonstrate this superiority? What is troublesome about the incompetence of the other characters, such as the Sephora's skipper or the unnamed ship's chief mate?
Essay Topic 3
The murder Legatt is accused of committing happened under unusual circumstances. Did Legatt intend to murder the person? From the information the author gives, is Legatt truly guilty of murder? Give your reasons discussing why or why not.
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