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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following helps Jack to be successful?
(a) Desire for prizes
(b) Willingness to be political
(c) Willingness to punish those that do not listen
(d) Bribery attempts

2. Why must Stephen consistently provide Jack and Dillon with medication?
(a) Their lack of appropriate hygiene
(b) Their serious medical conditions
(c) Their excesses in food and drink
(d) Their lack of appropriate vitamins

3. What must Jack do in order to recover from his serious illness?
(a) Nothing, it is terminal
(b) Drastic diet
(c) Hospitalization
(d) Retirement

4. What is Dillon afraid will corrupt his men?
(a) Stephen
(b) Lure of prize money
(c) Alcohol
(d) White chalk

5. Which of the following words best describes Jack overall?
(a) Lucky
(b) Pathetic
(c) Dishonerable
(d) Mean

6. Which of the following best describes what a snow is as used in the following sentence: The Sophie is disguised as a snow with the object of creating another ruse.
(a) A battle ship with 2 big masts and 2 smaller masts
(b) A transport vessel with 1 big mast and 1 small mast
(c) A plague ship with 1 big mast and 1 small mast
(d) Merchant ship with 2 big masts and 1 smaller mast

7. What does Jack tell all of the Midshipmen to do?
(a) Train for a promotion
(b) Write home
(c) Choose men which would become midshipmen in the future
(d) To set sail for land

8. What interrupts the breakfast of the two captains?
(a) Servant
(b) Illness
(c) Distress call
(d) Gunshot

9. What does Stephen believe the petulance between Dillon and Jack will lead to?
(a) Destruction of the ship
(b) Destruction of the crew
(c) A war
(d) A sword battle

10. What is ironic about most of the seamen aboard the Sophie?
(a) They do not like Dillon.
(b) They do not know how to swim.
(c) They are uneducated.
(d) They are afraid of Jack.

11. Where does Jack go to see Mercedes?
(a) The Amelia
(b) The Govener's mansion
(c) The Crown
(d) Mahon

12. Who does Jack miss?
(a) Holly
(b) Molly
(c) Stephen
(d) Henry

13. What does Jack attend at the Governor's residence?
(a) Concert
(b) Dinner
(c) Meeting with the Captain
(d) Court marshal

14. Who is thrown overboard?
(a) Ellis' son
(b) Stephen
(c) New Midshipman
(d) Dillon

15. For what are sailors typically punished on the Sophie?
(a) Drinking
(b) Disobeying orders
(c) Inability to swim
(d) Refusing to write home

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon which ship do the men sneak up and take by surprise?

2. Who warns Jack about a possible attempt to provoke Jack's insubordination?

3. Why does the Sophie head to Cape Salou?

4. Which of the following is the best synonym for the word illicit in the following sentence: The ship had an illicit cargo of quicksilver.

5. What type of mission does Captain Harte tell Jack they will be going on next?

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