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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 do Aubrey and the Leopard crew volunteer to do?
(a) Serve the forward gun battery.
(b) Serve on the boarding crew.
(c) Guard the diplomat and his retinue.
(d) Man the rigging.

2. Why does Maturin leave the cricket match?
(a) He is feeling the need for some laudenum.
(b) He is called away to assist in preparation of some documents.
(c) He has to treat a crewmember who is cut up in a fight.
(d) He is feeling ill.

3. What helps the dehydration a little?
(a) A heavy rain.
(b) Eating raw fish.
(c) Distilling a tiny bit of salt water.
(d) Nothing.

4. What is an accurate description of Wallis?
(a) Well-informed and insightful.
(b) A well-meaning, but incompetent person.
(c) A drunk and ne'r do well.
(d) Slothful.

5. What does the vessel turn out to be?
(a) The USS Constitution.
(b) A pirate vessel.
(c) A Dutch freighter.
(d) A US merchant vessel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who expresses admiration for Aubrey's exploits and tenacity?

2. Who do Maturin and Aubrey take on in Cricket?

3. How long is the life boat in which Aubrey and his men float?

4. Who rescues Aubrey from making a serious faux pas?

5. Who rescues Aubrey's boat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the sailors on board La Flèche do not take the war with the United States very seriously?

2. Why do you think it would be a serious faux pas to not attend the Captain's table to which one is invited in order to manage one's specimens as Maturin almost does?

3. What does Maturin learn that explains the Navy's treatment of Aubrey?

4. What are some events that foreshadow the loss of the La Flèche at the end of Chapter 2?

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

6. How would you respond to being in open sea in an eighteen-foot boat with twelve other people?

7. What surprises Aubrey once he is quartered at Asclepia?

8. What are a couple other playful tongue-in-cheek type discussions that firmly entrench the fun tone of the novel?

9. Why do you think Aubrey argues so strenuously to retain his lieutenants and midshipmen?

10. Do you think it would be difficult for the men to stay optimistic if after spotting a ship but they do not see you?

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