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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the river from which the ship has just left at the story's beginning?
(a) Menimile.
(b) Meinam.
(c) Nessie.
(d) Narcissus.

2. How long was the last spell of the stranger's swim to the unnamed ship?
(a) Eight hundred feet.
(b) Over two miles.
(c) A hundred yards.
(d) Over a mile.

3. What does Legatt drag behind him as he swims?
(a) His gun.
(b) His clothes.
(c) None of these.
(d) His bag.

4. What does the captain mention after his meeting with the officers on board the ship?
(a) How well the officers have been getting along.
(b) How hard the crew has been working.
(c) How hard the officers have been working.
(d) How well the crew has been getting along.

5. What keeps the captain from sleeping the night they see a strange ship approaching?
(a) The ship's foreign destination.
(b) The storm that night.
(c) The strangeness of himself and his arrangement.
(d) The unusual crew aboard the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the captain fetch for the mysterious man as the latter begins to board the ship?

2. What position had Legatt held on his ship?

3. Who does the stranger say has been with the skipper of the Sephora longest amongst the crew?

4. How does Legatt try to defend himself when he is accused of murder?

5. Which of the following is NOT suggested as being at the narrator's left hand at the story's beginning?

(see the answer key)

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