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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 are three food resources that Desolation Island has in abundance?
(a) Cattle, mushrooms and cabbage.
(b) Meat, eggs, and cabbage.
(c) Eggs, grains and cabbage.
(d) Fish, carrots and mushrooms.

2. What does Wogan want Herapath to do?
(a) Copy any intelligence on the ship.
(b) Steal the intelligence in the safe.
(c) Get her off the ship before Botany Bay.
(d) Marry her.

3. What kind of stalemate does Maturin have to break?
(a) Between Aubrey and Wogan.
(b) Between Aubrey and Putnam.
(c) Between Grand and Aubrey.
(d) Between Wogan and Herapath.

4. What does Aubrey do with the forge?
(a) Makes a new sword.
(b) Makes new mountings for the rudder.
(c) Makes some lag bolts.
(d) Makes a patch for the hull.

5. What does Maturin start to notice?
(a) Wogan's charms as a woman.
(b) Herapath's meetings with Wogan.
(c) The crew getting sick again.
(d) Wogan's lack of brains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey notice about the Dutch captain when the ship closes in?

2. What does Aubrey explain to Maturin at dinner?

3. What does Aubrey have the crew doing at the end of Chapter 8?

4. How is Desolation Island marked on the charts?

5. How well did Grant perform in combat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Grant's capabilities during combat and during regular ship operations.

2. How does Aubrey win the battle with the Dutch ship?

3. Why is the Leopard outclassed by the Waakzaamheid?

4. Meanwhile, Maturin has subtly informed Herapath--an American, it will be remembered--that should he gain the deck of La Fayette he would be free to leave with her; Aubrey would not risk an incident by boarding the American whaler. Do you think Maturin letting Herapath and Wogan escape was an act of treason?

5. While the crew works, Maturin visits a small island in the bay--it is so encumbered of strange life that Maturin christens it Paradise. Why do you think Maturin named the island Paradise considering it is near Antarctica and is probably pretty cold?

6. What decision of Aubrey's does Grant criticize?

7. How does the author attempt to make Aubrey appear?

8. Why does Leopard end up too far south?

9. What does Aubrey have done to his cabin and why?

10. What danger is the Leopard facing after the battle with the Dutch?

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