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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the scout report?
(a) The Surprise cannot get close, but a boat can get within 100 yards of shore.
(b) A safe landing is possible at low tide.
(c) There is a quarantine due to an outbreak of the plague.
(d) A safe landing is not possible.

2. What is Maturin's position on board?
(a) The ship's surgeon.
(b) The first mate.
(c) The cook.
(d) The steward.

3. In what does Maturin become involved?
(a) An epidemic.
(b) A study of the local flora and fauna.
(c) A dispute about medical treatment.
(d) A dispute of honor.

4. Who smuggles Clarissa on board?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Midshipman William Oakes.
(c) Tom Pullings.
(d) No one knows.

5. What does Aubrey anticipate when he goes back to England?
(a) The birth of his first son.
(b) Posting on a much larger vessel than the one he is currently on.
(c) Finding that his investments have soared.
(d) Learning if his father, who was critically ill, has died.

6. What does Maturin hope to do some day?
(a) Have a large enough vessel to sail around the world.
(b) Find a native wife at one of the tropical islands.
(c) Visit both places his patients have been.
(d) Study the fauna at the Galapagos.

7. What happens between Davidge and West?
(a) An agreement to invest together in a farm when they return to England.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A discovery.
(d) A division.

8. What do Maturin and Aubrey agree on about Clarissa?
(a) She is rather quiet.
(b) She is rather coarse.
(c) She is no great beauty.
(d) She is strikingly beautiful.

9. Who harpoons the creature?
(a) Cassow.
(b) Awkward Davies.
(c) Pullings.
(d) Brown.

10. What vessel is closing on Surprise?
(a) The HMS Leopard.
(b) The HMS Shamrock.
(c) The HMS Java.
(d) The HMS Éclair.

11. What island does Maturin hope to visit?
(a) Wahila.
(b) Tahiti.
(c) Fuji.
(d) Borneo.

12. What does Aubrey host as the Surprise heads for its new assignment?
(a) A wedding dinner.
(b) A sword fighting contest.
(c) A rig climbing contest.
(d) Dinner for the officers aboard the vessel that delivers the new orders.

13. Where is Clarissa Oakes?
(a) In Port Jackson.
(b) On board Aubrey's vessel.
(c) In Port-au-Prince.
(d) In Java.

14. What is closed?
(a) Easter Island.
(b) Tahiti.
(c) The eastern African shore.
(d) Norfolk Island.

15. Who does Aubrey send out to scout?
(a) Bonden.
(b) Oakes.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Pullings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What class is the vessel?

2. What does Aubrey inspect with Tom?

3. What port do they depart at the opening of the story?

4. For what does the Surprise ready?

5. What helps Aubrey get a good night's sleep?

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