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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. To where has Villiers fled?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Italy.

2. Who comes to see Maturin after he returns home?
(a) Lady Jessup.
(b) Sir Peter Waite.
(c) Admiral Mapleby.
(d) Sir Joseph Blaine.

3. What does Aubrey tell Maturin about the card players he's been with?
(a) He won a bunch from them last night.
(b) They aren't cheating.
(c) They have been run out of town.
(d) They are sharpers.

4. How does Maturin feel about his manipulations of Wogan and Herapath?
(a) Successful.
(b) Frustrated.
(c) Bored.
(d) Depressed.

5. How does Maturin respond that he must be implicated with Villiers?
(a) He slaps his accuser.
(b) He remains quiet and listens to the reasons.
(c) He stomps out of the room.
(d) Outraged shouting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what crime is Villiers accused?

2. What does Maturin do after Wogan expresses an interest in Herapath?

3. Who pursues the Leopard?

4. What does Maturin manipulate Herapath into doing?

5. What kind of storm does Aubrey run into at the start of his voyage?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Maturin decide he must do over the Villiers affair and what does he do?

3. 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.

4. Who visits Aubrey often and what does he find Aubrey involved in with his initial visit in this book?

5. Why has Villiers left her home?

6. Grant subtly but constantly criticizes Aubrey's handling of the ship--an irritating trait in any man but particularly when directed at such an obvious nautical genius as Aubrey. Why do you think Grant continues to criticize a captain who is obviously a superior seaman?

7. What does Aubrey find when he inspects the prisoners' quarters and what happens when he sees Wogan?

8. Wogan's viewing of Aubrey's nude body is humorous and a fictional inversion of usual events. Why do you think the scene is an inversion of usual events?

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

10. 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?

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