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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 ends after Aubrey and his men are shipboard?
(a) The sense of purpose.
(b) Their luck.
(c) Their good food.
(d) Their good morale.

2. What does Maturin learn when he dives for the treasure?
(a) The galley sank in a canyon and it's too deep to approach.
(b) There is more than enough to make all of them wealthy for the rest of their lives.
(c) The galley is floating just twenty feet below the surface.
(d) They were set up.

3. Who does Mauturin try to locate in Valletta?
(a) Mr. Wray.
(b) Bowfry.
(c) Dr. Graham.
(d) Lesueur.

4. What does Aubrey know decreases the longer they are at sea?
(a) The chance of intercepting the treasure ship.
(b) The likelihood of not being spotted by the French or prirates.
(c) The men's morale.
(d) The men's technical skills.

5. With what ship do the Surprise and Dryad cross paths?
(a) The Edinburgh.
(b) The Wellington.
(c) The Leopard.
(d) The Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the two ships traveling together?

2. What does the First Secretary promise Aubrey?

3. What surprises Maturin about Mr. Fielding?

4. With whom does the Surprise sail parallel?

5. How do the men survive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What seems to demonstrate that Aubrey's failure to gain the treasure will not be held against him?

2. What happens in Mrs. Fielding's home while Maturin sits in the dark awaiting her return?

3. What concerns Aubrey about his failed mission with the treasure ship?

4. What does Maturin tell Fielding about his wife and about Maturin's friendship with his wife?

5. How does Mrs. Fielding change the atmosphere on board the Surprise?

6. How do the men survive the remainder of their desert trek and in what kind of shape are they in at the end of their march?

7. To whom does Aubrey make his report about the treasure ship and what is the person's reaction?

8. What are conditions like for the men on board the Niobe?

9. What does Major Pollock tell Aubrey and what is Aubrey's response?

10. How does Maturin help to protect Mrs. Fielding and pull off and intelligence coup?

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