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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the captain hear when he is below the night they see a strange ship approaching?
(a) The sound of his crew snoring.
(b) The sound of a small row boat approaching.
(c) The sound of the boat creaking.
(d) The sound of whispers.

2. Who asks "Might you call him out quietly sir?"
(a) Legatt.
(b) The captain.
(c) The second mate.
(d) The chief mate.

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

4. What does the captain discover when he tries to pull the rope ladder up?
(a) Both of these.
(b) It's too heavy to pull up.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) It's broken.

5. The narrator says that only the sky and the sea will be ________to the voyage and task of he and his crew.
(a) Spectators and judges.
(b) Judges and friends.
(c) Spectators.
(d) Judicators.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of sail were the mysterious stranger and his victim setting when the murder occurred?

2. How many officers does the captain have?

3. What institution did both the captain and the mysterious man attend?

4. Where is the captain's riding light?

5. What does the captain tell his steward to do while the former takes a bath?

Short Essay Questions

1. What thoughts dominate the mind of the captain when the steward brings his wet coat into the stateroom?

2. What is significant about Leggatt's rebuttal of the Sephora's skipper's account of the setting of the reefed foresail?

3. How does the captain describe the situation in which he first finds himself truly in command of the ship?

4. When does the captain put their escape plan into place? What does he do? What reaction does this produce from the crew?

5. How does the captain narratively describe the scattered islands on the gulf?

6. The story begins with the captain coming aboard his new ship. Explain how the captain is feeling at the beginning of the story and how the author paints that picture.

7. How does the captain describe the skipper at the beginning of part two? How does he feel about the skipper?

8. What induces a state of self-possession in the captain while he faces the mysterious man in the water?

9. How does the captain arouse the suspicion of his steward?

10. Briefly, how does the narrator describe the setting of the Gulf of Siam, in which the story opens?

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