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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as young, round-cheeked, quiet, and serious?
(a) The second mate.
(b) The captain.
(c) The engineer.
(d) The chief mate.

2. What images of the captain and Legatt does the author create?
(a) All of these.
(b) The two men similar in stature.
(c) The two men wearing identical clothes.
(d) The two men standing next to one another.

3. To what innocent does the stranger relate his victim as in the thoughts of the skipper's wife?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Uriah.
(c) Abel.
(d) A peasant.

4. What does the captain say to the Sephora's skipper is the cause of his being hard of hearing?
(a) A swimming accident.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) Disease.
(d) Birth defect.

5. From where has the mysterious man directly come?
(a) Another unnamed ship.
(b) The wilderness.
(c) The tugboat.
(d) The Sephora.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who awakens the captain the morning after he finds Legatt?

2. How long has the stranger been swimming?

3. Where is Legatt hiding when he is almost discovered?

4. What ship does the captain think may be approaching at the end of Part 1?

5. For approximately how many weeks had the mysterious stranger been kept captive?

(see the answer key)

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