The Fortune of War | Short Essay Answer Key

Short Essay Answer Key

1. Do you think it is helpful for the author to present some background information from other books in the series, particularly the one just preceding this one?

The background offers some information from the novel that immediately precedes this novel and most likely the information mentioned will aid the reader throughout the rest of the novel to make necessary connections and inferences.

2. Why is it somewhat miraculous that the HMS Leopard pulls into Pulo Batang successfully?

Aubrey had commanded Leopard through a series of adventures leading up to a near-sinking and stranding on Desolation Island. The Leopard had been quite crippled and only essential repairs could be effected on Desolation Island; thus, the Loepard is traveling under much-less-than-ideal circumstances.

3. Who is Mrs. Wogan and how does she figure in the previous novel, which is mentioned in the initial chapters of this novel?

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