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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 does Maturin do about the prisoners' illness?
(a) He allows it to spread so people will become immune.
(b) Tries to contain it.
(c) Cures it with medicine.
(d) He has no treatment for it.

2. How is Sophie characterized?
(a) Silly.
(b) Insipid.
(c) Desolute.
(d) Thrifty and wise.

3. What did Wogan kill in her lodgings?
(a) A cat.
(b) A sailor who was going to rape her.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A rat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Herapath, Maturin and Wogan do when they see each other?

3. How many people recover from the illness but are too weak to work?

4. What does Maturin notice about the rats on board the ship?

5. What does Maturin feel as he travels to call on Villiers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maturin manipulate Herapath?

2. What does Pullings find after the storm?

3. What is Aubrey doing at the beginning of the novel?

4. 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?

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

6. With whom is Maturin enamored and how is that going for him?

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

8. Why has Villiers left her home?

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

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

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