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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they find when they enter the harbor?
(a) The Cornélie anchored in shallow water.
(b) The Cornélie about to raise anchor.
(c) The Cornélie is already a burning wreckage.
(d) No Cornélie.

2. About what does Maturin brood?
(a) About his son's recent bout with malaria.
(b) That he cannot search the nearby islands for new specimens.
(c) About his wife is in ill health.
(d) Being poor.

3. What happens to Maturin when the coca leaves are all gone?
(a) He is relieved.
(b) He has no means of medicating crew injuries and he's mad.
(c) He decides to brew some gin.
(d) He suffers withdrawal.

4. Where does Surprise head from Sweeting Island?
(a) Brest.
(b) England.
(c) The Mediterranean.
(d) New South Wales.

5. What Dutch ship does the Nutmeg of Consolation encounter?
(a) Araetjeer.
(b) Reetjik.
(c) Roetgen.
(d) Alkmaar.

6. What port does the Surprise reach?
(a) Brisbane
(b) Jackson.
(c) Newcastle.
(d) Hobart.

7. How do Maturin and Martin find two young girls?
(a) When they are trying to grab some Swifts' nests.
(b) When looking through the village.
(c) While searching for fruit.
(d) The girls are in a fruit tree.

8. For whom does Aubrey host a dinner?
(a) The Sultan of Imar.
(b) The captains of the flotilla and captured French officers.
(c) Admiral Leighton and his staff.
(d) The Governor of Madagascar.

9. What do the girls adopt as pets?
(a) Two seagulls.
(b) An albatross with a broken wing and its baby.
(c) The ship cats.
(d) Rats.

10. What do Martin and Maturin exchange over the next few weeks?
(a) Opinions on the hereditary line of gibbons.
(b) Letters from their wives that the other had.
(c) Medical advice.
(d) News, Adventures and specimens.

11. Who is Lieutenant Jean-Pierrre Dumesnil?
(a) An acquaintance of Aubrey's.
(b) A double agent and friend of Maturin.
(c) The commander of the Triton.
(d) The commander of the French man-o-war.

12. To where does Aubrey and Maturin remove?
(a) They go ashore in Manalay.
(b) Surprise.
(c) To Triton.
(d) To HMS Shannon.

13. Who is offered a command position?
(a) Evans.
(b) Miller.
(c) Pullings.
(d) Oakes.

14. Who appears on the horizon?
(a) Surprise.
(b) An American privateer.
(c) The French man-o-war.
(d) The HMS Shannon.

15. What information does the Captain of the Dutch ship provide?
(a) That a large pirate fleet is not far away.
(b) That a cyclone is brewing on their path.
(c) That the Cornélie was sunk by pirates that morning.
(d) Information about the movements of the Cornélie.

Short Answer Questions

1. When must Aubrey reach his destination?

2. Of what does Aubrey grow jealous?

3. What does the Cornélie do?

4. What does Aubrey offer to Maturin?

5. With whom does Aubrey share his thoughts?

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