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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 does Martin, Maturin's assistant, fare with the illness?
(a) He recovers.
(b) He doesn't get better but doesn't die.
(c) He dies from it.
(d) He never gets it.

2. Who is the officer Aubrey is having trouble with?
(a) Lt. Grant.
(b) Second mate Linemen.
(c) Bosom Parker.
(d) First mate Brown.

3. What does Wogan say as to why she is interested in Herapath?
(a) She knew him in London.
(b) She thinks he's handsome.
(c) She saw him fall.
(d) He reminds her of her brother.

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

5. Why is Aubrey angry?
(a) He's being asked to transport prisoners.
(b) He has to wait another month to leave.
(c) An admiral is coming with him.
(d) His pay has been cut.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Wogan appear after the storm?

3. What is a fourth-rate ship-of-the-line with a tarnished history?

4. In what part of the ship were the prisoners held?

5. What does Maturin find at Villiers' apartments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maturin find at Villiers' apartments?

2. What is Sophie doing about Aubrey's excesses?

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

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

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

6. What does Pullings find after the storm?

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

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

9. Why is Maturin called to the Admiralty?

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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