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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Herapath feel when doing what Wogan wants?
(a) Like he has outsmarted Maturin.
(b) Like he's going to be a father.
(c) Like he's betraying Maturin.
(d) Like he's a real spy.

2. What type of shot would Aubrey use against smaller boats?
(a) Repeating rifle fire.
(b) Small cannon fire.
(c) Small arms fire.
(d) Grape shot.

3. What does Aubrey explain to Maturin at dinner?
(a) How he plans to get back to England.
(b) How their position is too far east.
(c) How he plans to escape Waakzaamheid.
(d) How he plans to get the prisoners to Botany Bay.

4. For what does Aubrey prepare the crew?
(a) Sailing without a rudder.
(b) Wintering on Desolation Island.
(c) Getting to Botany Bay before winter.
(d) Returning to the ice island to get the forge.

5. What is sighted on the sea in Chapter 6?
(a) A British war ship.
(b) A ship wreck.
(c) A large pod of dolphins.
(d) Waakzaamheid.

6. What does Maturin think about Aubrey's wounds?
(a) He will recover fine.
(b) He needs surgery.
(c) He will always limp.
(d) He may be brain damaged.

7. What surprises Aubrey when morning arrives?
(a) The Leopard is surrounded by land.
(b) The Dutch ship is gone.
(c) The Dutch ship is still pursuing.
(d) A storm has come up.

8. What does Larkin do during lunch one day?
(a) Murders Howard.
(b) Throws Herapath overboard.
(c) Rapes Wogan.
(d) Throws his food at Aubrey.

9. What does Maturin see medically in the crew?
(a) Early signs of scurvy.
(b) Signs that gaol fever is returning.
(c) The crew is healthy from all the hard work.
(d) Signs of bubonic plague.

10. What type of surprise attack does the Dutch captain set up one night?
(a) Shooting fire arrows.
(b) Sending swimmers over to board Leopard.
(c) Hitting the bow with a whaling harpoon.
(d) Surrounding Leopard with small boats.

11. What does Herapath tell Maturin about Wogan?
(a) He wants to marry her.
(b) She is pregnant with his child.
(c) She is innocent.
(d) She needs to have better food.

12. What does Waakzaamheid try to destroy on Leopard?
(a) The rudder.
(b) The sails.
(c) The main mast.
(d) The guns.

13. What does Aubrey have his crew practicing extensively?
(a) Taking the sails up and down.
(b) Gunnery skills.
(c) Turning the ship in a tight circle.
(d) Putting out fires.

14. What does Aubrey have the crew doing at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Going after those who left.
(b) Spending the night on the ice island.
(c) Pack up everything and abandon ship.
(d) Continuing pumping and repairing the ship.

15. What does Aubrey decide to use as stern chasers?
(a) A fourteen and eleven pounder brass canons.
(b) Two brass long nine pounders.
(c) Three fourteen pounders.
(d) A long canon eight pounder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are three food resources that Desolation Island has in abundance?

2. What does the crew get from Peggy?

3. What does Aubrey announce to the ship when he takes the deck briefly?

4. What does Aubrey lament the loss of during the chase from the Dutch ship?

5. What happens to the rudder when they pull away from the iceberg?

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