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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin hope the Cornélie will be without?
(a) A surgeon.
(b) A captain.
(c) Gunpowder.
(d) Enough money for a good refitting.

2. How long does it take to repulse the attackers?
(a) Twenty-four hours.
(b) A week.
(c) Several hours.
(d) Three days.

3. What does Maturin send to a Chinese junk?
(a) A present.
(b) A peace offering.
(c) A child with a message.
(d) A stack of nests.

4. What is the name of their ship that wrecked?
(a) HMS Surprise.
(b) HMS Shannon.
(c) HMS Diane.
(d) HMS Leopard.

5. Why are the sailors able to salvage much of the ship's contents?
(a) They are unable to salvage anything.
(b) It washes up on shore almost intact.
(c) It took a long time to sink.
(d) The lifeboats were larger than average.

6. For what purpose are the bribes?
(a) He does not give any bribes.
(b) To assure that the harbormaster will give the Chinese safe passage.
(c) To get Matruin aboard the Cornélie for a trip back to England.
(d) To delay Cornélie's refitting and resupply.

7. To whom does the Chinese junk have to pay tribute?
(a) Pirates.
(b) The Dutch.
(c) The French.
(d) No one.

8. What does Maturin want to do about the Cornélie?
(a) Change its name to something that sounds less French.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Make an agreement with the captain of it.
(d) Pursue and destroy it.

9. Who does Maturin encounter that he knows on the trip on the junk?
(a) One of the Chinese.
(b) One of the sailors on the French frigate.
(c) One of the sailors on the French privateer.
(d) One of the pirates.

10. Who will depart about the Cornélie?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Martin and Maturin.
(c) Lafayette.
(d) The French delegation to Pulo Prabang.

11. What does Maturin find when he goes to gather the nests?
(a) A wounded Dyak.
(b) Some Chinese children gathering the nests.
(c) He cannot find them again.
(d) The nests had all been put to the torch by the attackers.

12. What does Aubrey do with the cannons?
(a) Sink the attacker's boat.
(b) Shoot after the retreating attackers to no avail.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Set up a defensive parameter.

13. What does Maturin play up?
(a) The wonder of birds' nest soup.
(b) A minor injury on a child.
(c) A minor injury that Aubrey suffers.
(d) A minor injury that he suffers.

14. Who were left by their previous ship for various offenses?
(a) Miller and Oakes.
(b) Pullings and Martin.
(c) Grimshaw and Killick.
(d) Jones and Bredford.

15. Where is the unnamed island?
(a) In the Indian Ocean.
(b) In the Atlantic Ocean.
(c) Near Cape Horn.
(d) The South China Sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Aubrey when Maturin awakes from his illness?

2. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?

3. What passes through the area?

4. What does the captain of the force who assaults Aubrey's camp wear?

5. Where departs for Batavia in one of the ship's boats?

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