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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon what do the hands of both the captain and the strange man rest?
(a) The rigging.
(b) The hatch.
(c) The skylight.
(d) The rail.

2. What does the captain hear under the poop deck?
(a) Chimes.
(b) Laughter.
(c) A moan.
(d) A hand bell.

3. What point of view is the story told in?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Omniscient.
(d) Second person.

4. What feeling is the captain afraid of putting to the test while speaking with the Sephora's skipper?
(a) Radical independence.
(b) Identity with Leggatt.
(c) Strangeness of being captain.
(d) Tolerance of fools.

5. What does the chief mate find in his ink well?
(a) A scorpion.
(b) A fly.
(c) A spider.
(d) A worm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the tug boat?

2. What eccentricity unconsciously enters the speech of the captain to his first mate?

3. What does the captain reflect to himself is the soul of discipline while walking aft on his watch?

4. What does the captain close after he and the stranger hear the noise overhead?

5. In what does the captain tie the sovereigns so that Leggatt may safely carry them?

(see the answer key)

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