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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horner say when he approaches Maturin?
(a) He wishes he had stayed back on the island instead of Hollom.
(b) He needs something to help him sleep.
(c) He knows his wife was pregnant.
(d) He is very sorry to have killed his wife.

2. How long does Surprise sit on the mud bank?
(a) Several days.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) Several hours.

3. What does Higgins continue to do?
(a) Gives the crew alcohol.
(b) Preaches his odd religion.
(c) Refuses to treat women.
(d) Practices various forms of chicanery.

4. What does Horner tell Aubrey?
(a) His wife is going to divoce him.
(b) He was jumped by some sailors and detained.
(c) Hollom is wants to stay with his wife on the island to protect her.
(d) His wife and Hollom will not be returning to the ship.

5. What is nailed to the craft's stem in the boat that rescues Aubrey and Maturin?
(a) Human skulls.
(b) Human scrotums.
(c) Human scalps.
(d) Human bones.

6. Why is São Francisco mentioned?
(a) It is where the USS Norfolk is last seen.
(b) It is where the Surprise goes for repairs.
(c) It is where the USS Constitution is last seen.
(d) It is where Mrs. Hosker is born.

7. Of what does Maturin purchase a large quantity?
(a) Coca leaves.
(b) Laudenum.
(c) Aspirin bark.
(d) Vampire bats.

8. Where does Surprise pass that has Maturin and Martin salivating to stop?
(a) Espanozian Island.
(b) The Galapagos Islands.
(c) Nazca Island.
(d) Machu Pichu.

9. What happens a few days after Mrs. Horner talks to Maturin?
(a) She kills herself.
(b) Her husband kills her.
(c) Her husband kills himself.
(d) She collapses.

10. What happens when Horner is taken to sick berth?
(a) He confesses everything to Maturin.
(b) He dies.
(c) He recovers pretty rapidly.
(d) He goes into a coma.

11. What takes many days to traverse?
(a) Cape Horn.
(b) The Southern Atlantic.
(c) The Pacific rim.
(d) The Gulf of Mexico.

12. What does Maturin learn about?
(a) The habits of the vampire bat.
(b) The local voodoo customs.
(c) The shamen's medical practices.
(d) The coca leaf.

13. Where are Aubrey and Maturin taken?
(a) To a British trading post.
(b) To a French fort.
(c) To the women's island.
(d) To a deserted island.

14. What do the crewmen of the Surprise urge the Whalers to do?
(a) Inappropriate things to amuse the Surprise's crew.
(b) Let them dance with their wives at the music fests.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Let their children run freely.

15. What is wrong with the whalers who join Surprise's crew?
(a) They have a hard time adjusting to military life.
(b) They are not used to that time of ship.
(c) They do not speak much English.
(d) They have their wives and children and so are protective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they learn as the Surprise is about ready?

2. What does Maturin tell Mrs. Horner?

3. How does this acquaintance help the Surprise?

4. Who rescues Aubrey and Maturin?

5. What happens in São Francisco?

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