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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the attack on Ali's compound - as plotted by Jim - begin?
(a) At sunset.
(b) At midday.
(c) At midnight.
(d) At sunrise.

2. How many people are aboard Chester's ship when it leaves the Australian port and steams into the Pacific Ocean?
(a) 47 people.
(b) 22 people.
(c) 15 people.
(d) 36 people.

3. Who is Tamb' Itam?
(a) Jim's personal servant.
(b) Kassim's personal servant.
(c) Dain's personal servant.
(d) Doramin's personal servant.

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

5. How many years elapse after Jim first leaves for Patusan and when Marlow is first able to visit Jim?
(a) Three years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two years.

6. How does Jim feel when he learns of the chance to relocate to the place that Stein and Marlow suggest?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Disillusioned.
(c) Crushed.
(d) Hopeful.

7. Once the survivors arrive in port, where does the captain immediately go?
(a) To the post office.
(b) To the harbor office.
(c) To the company's office.
(d) To the nearest bar.

8. How long does Jim reside in the place he chooses after leaving Doramin's place?
(a) Four weeks.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Ten weeks.

9. How does Jim make the last leg of his journey to Patusan?
(a) By ship.
(b) By train.
(c) By canoe.
(d) By horse.

10. What is the name of the principal shipping master?
(a) Harry Gustav.
(b) Archie Ruthvel.
(c) Robert Marlow.
(d) John Elliot.

11. What does Jim contemplate doing while in the lifeboat, but does not do because he does not want to give the other three men in the lifeboat the satisfaction?
(a) Crying.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Committing suicide.

12. On board ship, Jim is injured and unable to work. What happens?
(a) Jim fell overboard.
(b) Jim slipped on the deck.
(c) Another crew member fought with Jim.
(d) A falling spar hit Jim.

13. How does Jim characterize his stay in his new lodging arrangement after he leaves Doramin's home?
(a) Workable.
(b) Disastrous.
(c) Heavenly.
(d) Beastly.

14. What does Stein collect?
(a) Stamps.
(b) Coins.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Knives.

15. When Jim and his men attack the stockade, who breaks through first?
(a) Tamb' Itam.
(b) Dain Waris.
(c) Kassim.
(d) Jim.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Batu Kring's head man refer to Jim?

2. What is the name of the engineer who collapses from a heart attack aboard the Patna?

3. What is the name of the ship that Jim takes the job of chief mate on?

4. As the captain and the drunken man are fighting, what happens to the ship?

5. How old is Stein when he takes part in the revolutionary movement of 1848?

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