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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In which direction does Aubrey head after the storm?
(a) West.
(b) Southeast.
(c) East.
(d) Southwest.
2. Who is Stephen Maturin?
(a) Sohpie's husband.
(b) A con artist who sells Aubrey a lame horse.
(c) A renowned surgeon and natural scientist.
(d) The Duke of Glasson.
3. What does Aubrey do Saturday evening?
(a) Goes to bed early.
(b) Takes Wogan for a walk.
(c) Gets tipsy.
(d) Writes a long letter to Sophie.
4. What do Wogan and Herapath attempt to do about their feelings?
(a) Hide them.
(b) Act upon them by getting married.
(c) Restrain them.
(d) Show them.
5. Who did the prisoners murder during the storm?
(a) The first mate.
(b) Louisa Wogan.
(c) The warden and his assistant.
(d) Two of the guards.
6. What does Maturin do about the prisoners' illness?
(a) He allows it to spread so people will become immune.
(b) He has no treatment for it.
(c) Cures it with medicine.
(d) Tries to contain it.
7. Who has criticized Aubrey's handling of the ship?
(a) Lt. Socour.
(b) Lt. Grant.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Herapath.
8. With whom does Maturin think Villiers might have taken up again?
(a) Mr. Peterson.
(b) Mr. Johnson.
(c) Mr. Black.
(d) Mr. Hawthorne.
9. How does Maturin feel about his manipulations of Wogan and Herapath?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Bored.
(c) Frustrated.
(d) Successful.
10. Who begins to assist Maturin in sick bay?
(a) Martin.
(b) Grant.
(c) Herapath.
(d) Wogan.
11. Into what does the Leopard crash?
(a) The Rock of Gibralter.
(b) An iceberg.
(c) A coral reef.
(d) A sand reef.
12. What is Aubrey doing as the novel opens?
(a) Living a life of dissipation.
(b) Coming up before the review board.
(c) Getting married.
(d) Hiring crew.
13. What happens with the prisoners as the ship sits still?
(a) Their illness accelerates.
(b) They begin to recover.
(c) The symptoms change.
(d) It's not affected one way or the other.
14. Who is Mrs. Williams?
(a) Sohpie's hypochondriac sister.
(b) Aubrey's hypochondriac mother.
(c) Sophie's hypochondriac mother.
(d) Maturin's hypochondriac mother.
15. From whom does Maturin receive a summons?
(a) The queen.
(b) Naval intelligence.
(c) The Admiralty.
(d) His father.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long does the ship lie becalmed?
2. Why does Maturin say yes to the request by naval intelligence?
3. Why does Sophie talk Aubrey into keeping the command of Leopard?
4. How does Herapath feel when he gets to the top of the ropes?
5. How does Martin, Maturin's assistant, fare with the illness?
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