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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen in Mauritius if the British military campaign is successful?
(a) It will be left alone with a nominal British force left there.
(b) A naval base will be established there.
(c) It will return to the native population.
(d) An English governor will be installed.

2. What are the gardens like around Aubrey's home?
(a) Average.
(b) Failing.
(c) There are no gardens.
(d) Lush.

3. For what is Stephen Maturin most known?
(a) As a professor.
(b) As a general.
(c) As a physician.
(d) As a lawyer.

4. What does Aubrey do about Corbett and Clonfert?
(a) Send Clonfert to England.
(b) Have them flogged and demoted.
(c) Court martial both of them.
(d) Sends Corbett back to England with a captured ship.

5. What does Lady Clonfert request of Aubrey?
(a) The money he owes her.
(b) To take her son under his protection.
(c) Passage to London.
(d) Passage as far as Cape Town.

6. Which island is garrisoned by the British?
(a) LeFleua.
(b) Rodriguez.
(c) La Reunion.
(d) Carolinia.

7. In what type of home does Captain Aubrey live?
(a) A castle.
(b) A country cottage.
(c) A townhouse.
(d) A farmhouse.

8. What kind of Captain is Corbett known to be?
(a) A rigid disciplinarian and a fighting captain.
(b) Someone to respect but doesn't like to kill.
(c) An easy going man.
(d) A good seaman but lax with his sailors.

9. What does Maturin call tormina?
(a) The inability to catch one's breath.
(b) A headache band around the forehead.
(c) Physcial cramping and anxiety.
(d) A muscle cramp in the thigh.

10. Of what does McAdam say Clonfert's physical ailments are the result?
(a) Genetics.
(b) Horseback accident as a child.
(c) Mental distress.
(d) Old war wounds.

11. What does Maturin believe is the basis of the strange personality?
(a) Physical in nature.
(b) He has no idea.
(c) Mental in nature.
(d) He does not believe there is a reason.

12. How far is Mauritius when the squadron sets sail?
(a) 2885 miles.
(b) 1500 miles.
(c) 1085 miles.
(d) 5000 miles.

13. What kind of mental stress is Maturin fighting?
(a) Fear.
(b) Bipolar.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Depression.

14. What do Aubrey's forces and British land forces do on La Reunion?
(a) Capture a key city.
(b) Rescue prisoners.
(c) Burn the main towns.
(d) Destroy the crops.

15. Why does Matuin tell Aubrey he has to go to Mauritius?
(a) The French have put a strong naval force there.
(b) They are going to Russia.
(c) They are withdrawing from Italy.
(d) They are going to cross the channel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Napoleon trying to conquer?

2. To what drug is Maturin addicted?

3. What kind of ship is the Néréide?

4. How does Aubrey feel about the captain of the Sirius?

5. What does Sophie ask Maturin to do?

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