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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long has the skipper of the Sephora been captain of the ship?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Fourteen years.
(c) Eighteen years.
(d) Nine years.

2. What do the captain and the stranger immediately share in common?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Isolation.
(c) Youth.
(d) Apathy.

3. What physical abnormality did the captain notice about the skipper?
(a) None of these.
(b) One of his arms was shorter than the other.
(c) One of his legs was shorter than the other.
(d) One of his legs was more crooked than the other.

4. What does Leggatt claim worked him into a sort of desperation in the gale with night coming on?
(a) The squall of the sea.
(b) The despair of the crew.
(c) The skipper's whimpering.
(d) The frenzy of the wind.

5. Who is described as a comical character with abundant whiskers?
(a) The engineer.
(b) The captain.
(c) The second mate.
(d) The chief mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the captain suggest to the Sephora's skipper might have been responsible for the death of Leggatt's victim?

2. What sort of pagoda does the story's narrator see from just off the mouth of the river?

3. What does the helmsman complain of not being able to see well while close to the island?

4. Who says "I think I had come creeping quietly as near insanity as any man who has not actually gone over the border"?

5. What word best describes the weather over the recent evening?

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