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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Surprise rendezvous unexpectedly?
(a) A French privateer.
(b) Several Indiamen.
(c) The HMS Dagger.
(d) The USS Constitution.

2. Whom does the crew consider a Jonah?
(a) Hollom.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Allen.
(d) Mowett.

3. Who agrees to accept a lesser position on Surprise since he has no other options at the time?
(a) Martin.
(b) Mowett.
(c) Fielding.
(d) Tom Pullings.

4. With whom do the Fieldings meet socially?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Martinique.
(c) Hollister.
(d) Phipps.

5. Why does Maturin find Allen's conversation interesting?
(a) He loves natural history.
(b) His father was a whaler.
(c) Maturin once was on a vessel captured by pirates.
(d) Maturin wonders about the claims about the Bermuda Triangle.

6. What is HMS Danaë carrying?
(a) Gold in iron chests.
(b) A large cache of weapons.
(c) A hold full of liberated slaves.
(d) A hold full of coffee.

7. When does Maturin bleed the entire crew?
(a) When one man comes down with typhus.
(b) When one man seems to have the plague.
(c) When the ship enters the tropics.
(d) When one of the wives comes down with malaria.

8. What does Sir Ives say about the USS Norfolk?
(a) It is prowling the waters of South America.
(b) It is on a mission to destroy British whalers.
(c) It is on a mission to enlist France's aid against the British.
(d) It is stranded in Greenland.

9. What information does Allen have about whales?
(a) Mostly folk lore.
(b) None.
(c) About their behaviors, species and how much oil they produce.
(d) Not much.

10. Who once gave Mrs. Fielding passage aboard his ship?
(a) Phipps.
(b) Nelson.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Aubrey.

11. What kind of ship is the Surprise?
(a) A slaver.
(b) A British man-of-war.
(c) A passenger ferry.
(d) A merchant frigate.

12. What is Maturin's position on board the Surprise?
(a) Gunner's mate.
(b) First Officer.
(c) Surgeon.
(d) First mate.

13. From where are live eels supposedly removed?
(a) The bilge.
(b) The brains of the crew.
(c) The grain bags.
(d) The intestines of the crew.

14. How does Surprise send mail home?
(a) With a Dutch freighter.
(b) With a private British schooner.
(c) With the Indiamen.
(d) With a British man-o-war they meet up with.

15. Whom does Maturin observe trying to flirt with Mrs. Horner?
(a) Martin.
(b) Hollom.
(c) No one.
(d) Coleman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin do with the blood from the crew?

2. What does Wray constantly work to do?

3. What is Higgins' skill that Maturin needs?

4. What was the mission when Mr. Allen sailed with Colnett?

5. What region does the Surprise pass through that is considered difficult?

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