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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many guns does the Caeser carry?
(a) 100
(b) 80
(c) 10
(d) 50

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

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

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

5. Which of the following was the name of the character which was one of Stephen's patients who died in Chapter 10?
(a) Filipe
(b) Marshall
(c) Simmons
(d) Dillon

6. What is a covert distress sign?
(a) Waving a white flag
(b) Hanging a red flag out the wardroom quarter galley hatch
(c) Raising a flag with the union downward
(d) Dumping cargo into the sea

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

8. What has caused negative reactions in the quarters?
(a) Leaving behind Stephen
(b) Jack having a woman aboard
(c) Jack's liking of Dillon
(d) Dillon's choice to allow the two men to escape

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

10. 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 plague ship with 1 big mast and 1 small mast
(c) Merchant ship with 2 big masts and 1 smaller mast
(d) A transport vessel with 1 big mast and 1 small mast

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

12. Which of the following characters has asked for a transfer?
(a) Dillon
(b) Ricketts
(c) Stephen
(d) Ellis

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Stephen returned to Ireland after an eight-year absence what did he say he had forgotten?

2. What does Jack attend at the Governor's residence?

3. How many men does Stephen report to be killed?

4. What does Jack decide to do to the merchantmen by the coast?

5. What interrupts the breakfast of the two captains?

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