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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the captain do after settling Legatt in for the night?
2. What does the captain reflect to himself is the soul of discipline while walking aft on his watch?
3. For how long has the captain been in command at the start of the tale?
4. Where was Legatt held during his incarceration?
5. What do the captain and the stranger immediately share in common?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the captain describe the situation in which he first finds himself truly in command of the ship?
2. Trace the outlines of the captain's plan for Leggatt's escape from the ship.
3. How does the mysterious man characterize the victim of his murderous anger?
4. What does the captain demonstrate about his own character through his "polite insistence" in showing the Sephora's captain the entirety of his ship?
5. Why does the captain choose to take Legatt to his quarters rather than the brig or the crew's quarters?
6. What characterizes the account of the stranger's escape from the Sephora to the unnamed ship?
7. What characterizes the attitudes of the crew as their captain evidently leads them towards an idiotic doom?
8. What danger lies in taking the ship as close as possible to the islands the ship is approaching?
9. What is indicated about the nature of a captain's rule at sea by the captain's decision that he must show himself on deck?
10. How does the captain describe his own situation aboard the unnamed ship in speaking to the stranger?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examining the whole of the text, write an essay analyzing the concepts of self and the second self that permeate the thinking and narration of the captain. What is the self? What does it mean to have a self? In what does the "self" consist? What would it mean to have a "second self"? Why is this concept strange? Does the average person have similar experiences to that of a second self? How do such experiences contrast with those of the captain and Leggatt in The Secret Sharer? How are they similar? In what ways do the two men share in an identity?
Essay Topic 2
In stark contrast to the unnamed captain and Leggatt, the former chief mate of the Sephora, Captain Archbold and the unnamed chief mate of the unnamed ship are similarly paralleled, but not at all similar in character. Compose a thoughtful essay which examines these two characters in relation to the whole of the story. What function, in terms of the story's plot, do the incompetent men serve? How are they alike to one another in this functionality? What is significant about their parallelism? How is this demonstrated in the text?
Essay Topic 3
The ship almost running aground is a major source of symbolism in Part 2. Why? Give examples from the text to support your answer.
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