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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shape is the hill on which the pagoda at the story's beginning sits?
(a) Mitre.
(b) Coconut.
(c) Convex.
(d) Dome.

2. What does the author compare the riding light to?
(a) The sun.
(b) A flame.
(c) The stars.
(d) A candle.

3. What does the captain yell over the side of the ship, down the ladder to the body below?
(a) "What's the matter?"
(b) "What's going on?"
(c) "Who's there?"
(d) "Ahoy!"

4. What was the content of the first cry from the crew concerning the stranger's intention in diving off the ship?
(a) Escape.
(b) Madness.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Idiocy.

5. What features does the captain notice about Legatt?
(a) His small, brown mustache.
(b) His light eyes.
(c) All of these.
(d) His heavy, dark eyebrows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until what time does the captain, in an unprecedented move, propose to take a watch himself?

2. What does the chief mate find in his ink well?

3. On the crew, who is the "odd ball" or the odd man out?

4. The shadows of what are flung far eastward by the setting sun, as described after the Gulf is named?

5. What does the captain believe he sees floating in the sea very close to the ladder?

(see the answer key)

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