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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Horner claim about her husband?
(a) He is having an affair with another wife on the ship.
(b) He will kill her if he learns she is pregnant.
(c) He is suicidal.
(d) He has syphilis.

2. What does Maturin hear the crew discuss?
(a) Higgins has poisoned Horner.
(b) Horner has beaten up Higgins rather badly.
(c) Horner has jumped overboard.
(d) Higgins has been thrown overboard.

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

4. What do they learn as the Surprise is about ready?
(a) The Norfolk is still in dry dock.
(b) The Norfolk has passed by.
(c) The Constitution has passed by.
(d) Surprise is being recalled to the Mediterranean.

5. Why does Aubrey push the crew so hard?
(a) They have been grumbling about mutiny.
(b) Trying to catch up to the Norfolk.
(c) Trying to catch up to the Constitution.
(d) They have gotten lazy in port.

6. When does a strange wailing begin?
(a) When Higgins jumps overboard.
(b) When Horner dies.
(c) When Horner lapses into a coma.
(d) When Higgins shoots himself in the head.

7. What does Surprise do at Juan Fernandez Island?
(a) Makes Higgins get off the boat.
(b) Just stops long enough to get water.
(c) Refits and resupplies.
(d) Nothing; just sails past it.

8. Who are Manu and Taio?
(a) Polynesian women.
(b) Two men who rescue Aubrey and Maturin from the women.
(c) Two men who are kept as slaves on the American whaler.
(d) Two men who are kept as virtual slaves on the French frigate.

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

10. What does Aubrey learn about their prey?
(a) Norfolk is well ahead of them.
(b) They are refitting on an island three days sail from Surprise.
(c) They have encountered a bad storm and are delayed not too far in advance of Surprise.
(d) Constitution is well ahead of them.

11. What does Aubrey do about the Danaë?
(a) Countermands the orders.
(b) Executes the mutineers.
(c) Recaptures her and executes the pirates.
(d) Recaptures her.

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

13. What does Aubrey do when Maturin goes overboard?
(a) Sounds the man overboard pipes.
(b) Leaps in to save him.
(c) Nothing as he does not observe it happen.
(d) Throws some other things overboard to mark the spot.

14. Padeen Coleman is proving himself to be ____________.
(a) Well-versed in medicine.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Belligerent.
(d) Useful and reliable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes evident as the days pass?

2. Where does Surprise sail?

3. How does Maturin react to what he learns?

4. Why is Aubrey in such a hurry after they leave the area of São Francisco?

5. What do the crewmen of the Surprise urge the Whalers to do?

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