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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. From what is Aubrey recovering?
2. Who is Heneage Dundas?
3. What does Maturin hear Padeen Coleman doing with Brigid?
4. What is said about Clarissa Oakes?
5. What does Maturin give the person he first visits?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the readers show a very different side of Aubrey through his children?
2. How does Maturin help quell rebellion in the village?
3. What does Maturin say about Sarah and Emily?
4. How long is Maturin ill and what is the fleet doing when he returns to consciousness?
5. What happens as the fleet is leaving The Berlings and what is Aubrey's thought on the matter?
6. What is Padeen teaching Brigid, and what is Stephen's reaction?
7. Who is Whewell and how can he help in the fleet's mission?
8. About what does Gifford talk to Maturin and what is Maturin's reaction?
9. How is Captain Thomas characterized?
10. What does Blaine say about the "man with a limp"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss The Commodore based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if it is a successful novel. Explain your rationale with specific examples.
3. Do you think the fact that The Commodore falls within the genre of historical fiction changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
The Commodore, like many, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:
1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why? not?
2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of The Commodore and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention.
3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Captain Jack Aubrey is in some ways a larger-than-life hero. Despite incredible odds, he usually comes out on top, in The Commodore and in the other books in the series. Discuss the following:
1. Does having a larger-than-life hero make that person less of a hero? In other words, which is more admirable--a hero who ultimately always "lands on his feet," or one who strives against impossible odds and doesn't succeed?
2. Does a character have to be successful in order to be a hero? Explain your answer.
3. Choose one other character besides Aubrey who you might call a hero/heroine and explain why you choose that person.
4. Does every work of fiction have to have a hero? Explain your answer.
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