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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. How many people recover from the illness but are too weak to work?
(a) A hundred.
(b) About sixty-five.
(c) Half the ship.
(d) Twenty-six.

2. Why does Aubrey make Grant first officer?
(a) Pullings has died.
(b) Pullings is being made bosom.
(c) Pullings is staying ashore.
(d) He has promoted Pullings.

3. Why is Herapath in trouble?
(a) Drinking on duty.
(b) Absent during watch.
(c) Stealing food.
(d) Sneaking in to see Wogan.

4. What does Aubrey do about the peeping hole?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Puts a stop to it.
(c) Uses it himself.
(d) Tells Maturin he can use it for spying activities.

5. Why does Sophie talk Aubrey into keeping the command of Leopard?
(a) To get him out to sea.
(b) So he doesn't find out she's with child.
(c) So Maturin has something to do.
(d) So he will get some more pay.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where has Villiers fled?

2. Who has bored a peeping hole in Wogan's quarters' wall?

3. Who is Aubrey supposed to reinstate?

4. Who does Aubrey visit after inspecting the prisoners' quarters?

5. Who is Diana Villiers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the epidemic hits and who does Herapath replace?

2. What does the ship enter farther north than usual and what happens when it is there?

3. Who does Aubrey encounter as they leave Brazil and what does he find out?

4. Where do Maturin and Aubrey go so Aubrey can play cards and how did it go there for Aubrey?

5. The rescue of Herapath begins the novel's restrained, intricate, and playful treatment of the sexually-charged atmosphere of a man-of-war with hundreds of men and three women--one of them obviously pregnant and all of them dangerous criminals. What do you think is meant by this statement?

6. The chapter presents an interesting but routine narrative technique by introducing a letter home from Aubrey followed by a journal entry by Maturin. Both texts flow naturally and are presented in an appropriate voice; they both expose inner thoughts and deep feelings which would ordinarily not come out in common conversation. Explain why you think the author used this technique.

7. What happens after the ship is put in order from the storm and what does Maturin discover?

8. Who is Lieutenant Grant and what is Aubrey's problem with him?

9. Maturin begins to mention Herapath to Wogan as a unique case--she claims an interest because she had seen his fall. It seems simple enough to Maturin, and soon enough he discusses Herapath with Wogan freely. All along, the three maintain their innocence. What do you think it means when Maturin thinks Wogan's explanation is dimple enough?

10. Who is Louisa Wogan and what happened to her?

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