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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 the men do for entertainment?
(a) Play cricket.
(b) Play whist.
(c) Play cards.
(d) Play craps.

2. Who does Maturin spy one morning when he wakes up?
(a) A pirate.
(b) A Dyak woman.
(c) A French privateer approaching the bay.
(d) What he thinks is an angel.

3. What does Aubrey admire about the Captain of the Marines?
(a) His droll sense of humor.
(b) His ability at whist.
(c) His efficiency and devotion to duty.
(d) His physique.

4. How had Fox behaved?
(a) Knowledgeable.
(b) Intrepid.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Increasingly irrational and haughty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Maturin concerned about his wife?

2. To whom does Maturin give bribes?

3. What is the effect of the aftermath of the attack?

4. Who owns the Chinese junk?

5. After whom is Aubrey's new ship named?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Aubrey's plan concerning an engagement with the Cornélie?

2. Why is Aubrey and his crew marooned?

3. How and why does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?

4. What do Maturin and Martin do and what do they find?

5. Upon what factors does Aubrey's plan hinge?

6. About what does Aubrey brood and what are his thoughts about the topic?

7. What interests Kesegaran in the sailors' camp and why are the sailors interested in her?

8. How do the English lose hope even though they repulsed the Dyak attack?

9. Who does the Nutmeg of Consolation encounter and what do they learn?

10. Who is William Grimshaw and how does he help provide comic relief on board?

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