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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who recognizes Aubrey and Maturin on the ship the Surprise encounters?
(a) Several of the enlisted crew.
(b) Some of the officers.
(c) No one.
(d) The French captain.

2. What is running low on the ship?
(a) Flour.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) The water.
(d) Fresh fruit.

3. Who is Dundas?
(a) A longtime enemy of Aubrey's.
(b) Mrs. Fielding's brother.
(c) Maturin's cousin.
(d) A longtime friend of Aubrey's.

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

5. What friend does Maturin encounter on shore?
(a) None.
(b) Reverend Mr. Martin.
(c) Reverend John Jells.
(d) Reverend Mr. Brierly.

6. What does Maturin do with the blood from the crew?
(a) Uses it to create an antidote.
(b) Uses it to catch several large sharks.
(c) Uses it to trap mosquitoes.
(d) Throws it out.

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

8. Who acts as First Lieutenant?
(a) Hollom.
(b) Pullings.
(c) Mowett.
(d) Martin.

9. What does Diana request of Maturin?
(a) More household expense money.
(b) Passage to see him.
(c) A refutation of his alleged affair with another woman.
(d) A new overseer.

10. Which two factions of the crew are doing well together?
(a) All of them seem to be doing well together.
(b) The old hands and the ex-Defender factions.
(c) The old hands and those from the lunatic asylum.
(d) The ex-Defender factions and those from the lunatic asylum.

11. What does Martin say he has been contemplating?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Settling in the West Indies.
(d) Leaving the Navy.

12. What does Wray constantly work to do?
(a) Destroy Maturin.
(b) Finding new species of plants in the West Indies.
(c) Ferret out double spies for British intelligence.
(d) Support Maturin.

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

14. Why does Aubrey contrive to cross the equator on Sunday?
(a) So the crew will not party.
(b) He does not contrive to do so; it just happens.
(c) So they will not be in port until the next week.
(d) It is considered good luck to do so.

15. Why is Nagel lashed?
(a) He is insolent to Hollom.
(b) He lies about his duty.
(c) He steals another crew's rations.
(d) He is rude to one of the wives on board.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maturin's position on board the Surprise?

2. Why does Aubrey need a schoolteacher?

3. Who is Higgins?

4. What does Dundas suggest to Aubrey?

5. From where is Padeen Coleman?

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