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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the court cancel for both the chief mate and the skipper?
(a) Their appointments.
(b) Their licenses.
(c) Their certificates.
(d) Their mandates.

2. What is the name of the ship-chandlers with whom Jim finds work?
(a) Egstrom and Blake.
(b) Blake and Elliot.
(c) Elliot and Moore.
(d) Moore and Blake.

3. How much time elapses between when the ship has its accident and when Jim finds himself at the official inquiry into the incident?
(a) Three months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) One month.
(d) Ten days.

4. What does Jim discover in the forepeak of the ship?
(a) Food.
(b) Traitors.
(c) Water.
(d) Passengers.

5. When Jim sees Marlow face-to-face at the ship-chandlers, what does Marlow ask Jim?
(a) Why he wrote for the inquiry's findings.
(b) Why he left his previous position.
(c) Why he revealed his Patna history.
(d) Why he joked about the Patna.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lifeboats are on the Patna before the incident under inquiry occurs?

2. On board, Jim witnesses a drunken man verbally abusing the captain. Who is the drunkard?

3. Why can the Patna's captain and his fellow ship abandoners not free their lifeboat?

4. What is the name of the house where Jim and Marlow spend an evening talking during the inquiry?

5. What does Jim ask Marlow to do as a favor in regard to his newly found position with the ship-chandlers?

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