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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 is Maturin asked to do?
(a) Go to Cape Town on the way to America.
(b) Step down from commanding Leopard.
(c) Escort a prisoner to Botany Bay.
(d) Resign his commission.

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

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

4. Who begins to assist Maturin in sick bay?
(a) Martin.
(b) Herapath.
(c) Wogan.
(d) Grant.

5. What did Villiers leave Maturin?
(a) A painting of herself.
(b) A letter.
(c) A pocket watch.
(d) A necklace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what does the Leopard crash?

2. What is one purpose of Aubrey's trip?

3. Where does Aubrey weather the storm?

4. With what does Maturin find Aubrey busy?

5. Who did the prisoners murder during the storm?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Maturin find out about Aubrey's next assignment on the sea?

3. What does Maturin receive from Herapath twice and what does he find out?

4. 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.

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

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

7. Who comes to call on Maturin after he leaves the Admiralty and what does he say?

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

9. What happens to the convalescents on the ship?

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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