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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. Which ship ran away?
(a) Xalac
(b) Santa Lucia
(c) Gloire
(d) Parlac
2. What does the word providential mean in the following sentence: The rendezvous seemed almost providential.
(a) Unfortunate
(b) Deceitful
(c) Fortunate
(d) Surprising
3. What order does Captain Neal give to Stephen?
(a) To promote Dillon
(b) To make himself presentable
(c) To take on 50 prisoners
(d) To go and shower
4. Why could Stephen be shot?
(a) For putting white chalk into the food of the crew members
(b) For taking prisoners
(c) As a spy
(d) For visiting a friend while captain of a ship
5. Who preferred to be far away from the bad-smelling and noisy experience of exercising the guns?
(a) Jack
(b) Marhsall
(c) Stephen
(d) Dillon
Short Answer Questions
1. Which ship races for and arrives at shore?
2. Who does Jack miss?
3. What happens to the fiddle's neck as he plays?
4. Which of the following does Dillon believe to be Jack's biggest weakness?
5. What happens to Stephen when Dillon is speaking with Stephen in the jolly-boat?
Short Essay Questions
1. What might happen to Stephen should the Sophie leave immediately?
2. Why does Jack go back to the Crown and what does he do while he is there?
3. Why will the dinner at Captain Harte's be awkward for Stephen?
4. Despite his lack of knowledge about surgery, at what does Stephen excel?
5. Why was the ship down to just a quarter ration for water when they arrived in Minorca?
6. What changed about the way Molly was treated throughout the novel?
7. What do Stephen and James discuss after dinner and why does Stephen find it pleasurable?
8. What does Mr. Ellis talk disparagingly about and of what importance is this within the novel?
9. For Stephen, what takes precedence over the spiritual emptiness of a life in the Navy?
10. Why does Admiral Keith tell Jack that he will probably never rise to pos-captain?
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