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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 dies from it.
(b) He never gets it.
(c) He doesn't get better but doesn't die.
(d) He recovers.

2. What does Maturin think has affected the rats?
(a) Nothing he can see.
(b) The prisoners.
(c) The type of food they carry.
(d) The storm.

3. What do Wogan and Herapath attempt to do about their feelings?
(a) Restrain them.
(b) Show them.
(c) Act upon them by getting married.
(d) Hide them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Herapath goes aloft?

2. How does Wogan appear after the storm?

3. How did the prisoners feel during the storm?

4. Why has Villiers left her apartment?

5. What did Villiers leave Maturin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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. Why has Villiers left her home?

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

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. A somewhat unique connection is forged between Aubrey and Herapath during the rescue-from-drowning scene. Why do you think this connection occurred?

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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