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

2. What dragged Stephen down five fathoms when he was in the water?
(a) Lead-soled boots
(b) A shark
(c) Chains around his ankles
(d) Heavy clothing of the time

3. Who warns Jack about a possible attempt to provoke Jack's insubordination?
(a) Ellis
(b) Molly
(c) Florey
(d) Stephen

4. Who takes over the prisoners and is given the possession of the prize tartan ship?
(a) Dillon
(b) Jack
(c) Stephen
(d) Marshall

5. What is Stephen concerned that Jack may have done with the prisoners?
(a) Treated them unfairly
(b) Provided inadequate care to them
(c) Prematurely landed them
(d) Provided them with a means to escape

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stephen believe are basically the same thing?

2. What does the French doctor typically eat for breakfast?

3. What does Stephen believe the petulance between Dillon and Jack will lead to?

4. Which of the following helps Jack to be successful?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stephen warn Jack about in regards to his relationship with Molly?

2. Why will the dinner at Captain Harte's be awkward for Stephen?

3. What changed about the way Molly was treated throughout the novel?

4. Despite his lack of knowledge about surgery, at what does Stephen excel?

5. What is Molly to Jack and of what importance is this to the novel?

6. What does Stephen believe is the cause of Tom Simmons' death?

7. What does Jack do when the maintopgallantmast and foretosale fall and why?

8. What does Stephen see when he bends under the table to retrieve his napkin?

9. Why was the ship down to just a quarter ration for water when they arrived in Minorca?

10. What does Mr. Ellis talk disparagingly about and of what importance is this within the novel?

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