Question 56
EasyOriginal questionI remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, white. I remember him looking round the and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
in the high, old voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a , on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
“This is a handy cove,” says he at length; “and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?”
My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity.
“Well, then,” said he, “this is the for me. I’ll stay here a bit,” he continued. “I’m a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off. What you mought call me? You mought call me captain. Oh, I see what you’re at—there”; and he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold. “You can tell me when I’ve worked through that,” says he, looking as fierce as a commander.
Which of the following marked the stranger's face?
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
Explanation
The first paragraph describes "the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white".
Worth noting
His hands were scarred too, but the question asks about his face.
- Concept
- Locating a descriptive detail
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