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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 word providential mean in the following sentence: The rendezvous seemed almost providential.
(a) Deceitful
(b) Surprising
(c) Unfortunate
(d) Fortunate

2. What happens to the fiddle's neck as he plays?
(a) Breaks his skin and cuts him
(b) Releases poison into his body
(c) Warps
(d) Snaps in his hand

3. Who were there bad feelings between during the voyage?
(a) Jack and Dillon
(b) Jack and Ellis
(c) Stephen and Dillon
(d) Jack and Stephen

4. What is a tartan?
(a) Fleet ship
(b) Small merchant ship
(c) Great gunship
(d) Plague ship

5. Who is thrown overboard?
(a) New Midshipman
(b) Stephen
(c) Ellis' son
(d) Dillon

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Stephen consistently provide Jack and Dillon with medication?

2. Which ship ran away?

3. What is Dillon afraid will corrupt his men?

4. Who does Jack miss?

5. How long did it take for the first hit to occur?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jack say to help relieve Stephen's concerns about the court-martial?

2. When they are playing, what does Jack confide in Stephen?

3. Why does Admiral Keith tell Jack that he will probably never rise to pos-captain?

4. Why is Captain Neal stern with Jack when Jack shows up to discuss his orders with dirt and powder all over his clothes and face?

5. Why does Jack go back to the Crown and what does he do while he is there?

6. For Stephen, what takes precedence over the spiritual emptiness of a life in the Navy?

7. What does Stephen believe is the cause of Tom Simmons' death?

8. What changed about the way Molly was treated throughout the novel?

9. What proves to Jack and the crew the ship with the blue ensign is from England?

10. Despite his lack of knowledge about surgery, at what does Stephen excel?

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