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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack insist upon doing while the Dedaigneuse approaches?
(a) Flogging Ellis
(b) Reading to Stephen
(c) Listening to Mowett's poetry
(d) Reviving Ellis

2. Why could Stephen be shot?
(a) As a spy
(b) For taking prisoners
(c) For visiting a friend while captain of a ship
(d) For putting white chalk into the food of the crew members

3. Which ship ran away?
(a) Gloire
(b) Xalac
(c) Santa Lucia
(d) Parlac

4. When Stephen returned to Ireland after an eight-year absence what did he say he had forgotten?
(a) How to read
(b) The customs
(c) Where he lived
(d) The language

5. What will Ramis and Stephen be curiously examining?
(a) Feelings of servants
(b) Suppression of emotions
(c) How to demonstrate rage
(d) How a cat shows it is happy

6. What order does Captain Neal give to Stephen?
(a) To take on 50 prisoners
(b) To promote Dillon
(c) To make himself presentable
(d) To go and shower

7. What has Jack picked up from Molly?
(a) Serious illness
(b) Orders
(c) Trinket
(d) Note

8. Upon which ship do the men sneak up and take by surprise?
(a) Santa Lucia
(b) Parlac
(c) Gloire
(d) Xalac

9. Which ship races for and arrives at shore?
(a) HMS Pompee
(b) Sophie
(c) DeSaix
(d) Hannibal

10. Which of the words would Jack use to describe the types of currents wafting through his crew and officers?
(a) Strange
(b) Surprising
(c) Angry
(d) Enthusiastic

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

12. What does Stephen believe are basically the same thing?
(a) Actions and expressions
(b) Humans and animals
(c) Emotion and its expression
(d) Emotions in animals

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

14. Why does the Sophie head to Cape Salou?
(a) To deliver a prisoner to the Spanish
(b) To provide transportation to the Post-Captain
(c) To retrieve a Spanish prize
(d) To deliveer Stephen to his new home

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the book written by Dr. Ramis?

2. What does the word providential mean in the following sentence: The rendezvous seemed almost providential.

3. For what are sailors typically punished on the Sophie?

4. Who were there bad feelings between during the voyage?

5. What does Stephen tell Jack is being sent?

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