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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sir Ives feel about Aubrey's recent work?
(a) He has no opinion as he has just arrived and taken command.
(b) Heartily approves.
(c) Thinks Aubrey has been a little lax.
(d) Believes Aubrey could have been more thorough.

2. What mission is Aubrey given?
(a) To dry dock Surprise for new cannons.
(b) To wait in the West Indies for a new assignment.
(c) To return Mr. Wray to London.
(d) To capture or destroy the USS Norfolk.

3. Who acts as Second Lieutenant?
(a) Mowett.
(b) Allen.
(c) Hollom.
(d) Maturin.

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

5. What happens to several of Aubrey's officers?
(a) They retire.
(b) They are promoted onto other ships.
(c) They desert.
(d) They are ill.

6. What does Hollom begin that is scandalous?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Reading a novel considered to be evil.
(c) A sexual affair with Mrs. Horner.
(d) Reading Tom Jones.

7. What happens to over half of the whales killed?
(a) They are brought successfully to port.
(b) They are lost and not rendered into oil.
(c) They have no oil and are sunk.
(d) They are eaten by sharks.

8. Who is Higgins?
(a) Maturin's nominal assistant.
(b) Aubrey's valet.
(c) The third mate.
(d) The cook.

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

10. What region does the Surprise pass through that is considered difficult?
(a) The Bermuda Triangle.
(b) The lee side of the West Indies islands.
(c) The doldrums.
(d) No area is any more difficult than any other area.

11. What island does the Surprise sail past?
(a) None; they are out in the open seas.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) Madeira.
(d) Madagascar.

12. Who is Mr. Wray?
(a) A special ops undercover British agent.
(b) A French spy.
(c) A retired British lawyer.
(d) Maturin's oldest and best friend.

13. Why is Martin considered bad luck?
(a) He has a peg leg.
(b) He is red haired.
(c) He is missing a hand.
(d) He is a parson.

14. What is Higgins' skill that Maturin needs?
(a) Psychiatry.
(b) Dentistry.
(c) Herbal doctor.
(d) Nothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aubrey contrive to cross the equator on Sunday?

2. Who agrees to accept a lesser position on Surprise since he has no other options at the time?

3. What is Midshipman Hollom's situation on Gibraltar?

4. Why does Aubrey need a schoolteacher?

5. What is ambergris?

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