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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the skipper say Legatt came to be on his ship?
(a) He hired him directly.
(b) He was forced to take him on as part of the crew.
(c) He had to take him on because the skipper lost a bet.
(d) None of these.

2. Where does the captain finally take the ship?
(a) Away from Legatt's small boat.
(b) Toward the nearest port.
(c) Back out into sea.
(d) Toward the islands, away from the currents.

3. How does the captain feel when he first orders the ship forward?
(a) He was moved to tears, because this was the moment he'd been waiting for.
(b) He was exhilerated.
(c) He felt excited and whole.
(d) He was torn, as though part of him was absent.

4. How does the skipper react when it is suggested that the wave, not Legatt, killed the man?
(a) He was shocked.
(b) He was angry.
(c) He was unfazed by the comment.
(d) He was saddened.

5. How does the captain remain through his entire conversation with the skipper?
(a) He remains unexcitable.
(b) He pretends not to understand most of what the skipper says.
(c) He fakes curiousity.
(d) None of these.

6. How far in the future is the plan to maroon Leggatt set at the time of its making?
(a) Two nights.
(b) One night.
(c) Three nights.
(d) Three hours.

7. Who suggests that the wave which hit the boat could have killed the man rather than Legatt?
(a) The chief mate.
(b) The second mate.
(c) The engineer.
(d) The captain.

8. Who does the captain begin to hate the sight and sound of?
(a) The chief mate.
(b) Legatt.
(c) The steward.
(d) The second mate.

9. For what breezes does the captain say that he is going to look by night?
(a) The land breezes.
(b) The central gulf breezes.
(c) The sea breezes.
(d) The high reef breezes.

10. Where does the captain take the ship after agreeing that Legatt should leave?
(a) He took the ship toward the nearest port.
(b) He took the ship further out into sea.
(c) He took the ship towards a group of islands.
(d) He kept the ship on course, but increased the ship's speed.

11. Off what does Leggatt say he has been driven in his speech insisting he be marooned?
(a) Civilization.
(b) The Sephora.
(c) The earth.
(d) All ships.

12. Where do the crewmen from the Sephora believe Leggatt is hiding?
(a) On one of the islets.
(b) Aboard the Sephora.
(c) Aboard the unnamed ship.
(d) On the mainland.

13. To what part of the ship, excepting the lobby, does the sail locker have access?
(a) The captain's stateroom.
(b) The quarter-deck.
(c) The saloon.
(d) The poop.

14. What noise makes the captain start while Leggatt has a hold of his arm?
(a) The first mate knocking at the door.
(b) The supper bell.
(c) The steward setting the table in the saloon.
(d) The call for raised winds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the captain feel when he is on deck with the crew, knowing Legatt is hiding below?

2. What feeling is the captain afraid of putting to the test while speaking with the Sephora's skipper?

3. How does the skipper of the Sephora describe Leggatt?

4. Who is the captain referring to when he states, "Our hands met gropingly, lingered united in a steady, motionless clasp for a second...No word was breathed by either of us when they separated"?

5. The chief mate tells the second mate, after the captain puts the ship on the other tack, that such a move is a great want of what?

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