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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Aubrey anxious?
(a) His son who is with him is ill.
(b) Hollom's abuse of the crew.
(c) Sophie has not written in months.
(d) To get Surprise back on its mission.

2. What is Aubrey in a hurry to do?
(a) Get to sea.
(b) Get back to the Mediterranean.
(c) Get back to England and leave his son with his wife.
(d) Get a dispatch off to England.

3. What news comes to Maturin when he is trying to decide what to tell Aubrey?
(a) Higgins is tied to the main mast.
(b) Horner is throwing up all over the poop deck.
(c) Higgins has been found drowned in the bilge tanks.
(d) Horner has hung himself.

4. Who is Hogg?
(a) The whaler's spektioneer.
(b) The new surgeon's assistant.
(c) The cook.
(d) Aubrey's sounder.

5. In what condition is the pilot when Surprise is leaving?
(a) Normal.
(b) Very ill.
(c) Drunk.
(d) There is no pilot.

6. Who appears and is injured?
(a) Higgins.
(b) Hollom.
(c) Horner.
(d) Mrs. Horner.

7. What does Maturin tell Mrs. Horner?
(a) Coca leaves would work as a contraceptive.
(b) Her husband will always be impotent.
(c) Her husband is not ill physically.
(d) She is pregnant.

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

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

10. What does Maturin find when he arrives at Horner's cabin?
(a) Higgins and Horner are in a fist fight.
(b) He is obviously poisoned.
(c) Horner seems fine.
(d) He is still alive.

11. What does the older women want to do with Aubrey?
(a) Castrate him.
(b) Use him for shark bait.
(c) Use him to get the younger women pregnant.
(d) Nothing.

12. What becomes evident as the days pass?
(a) Aubrey's son is dying.
(b) Surprise is extensively damaged.
(c) Hollom has to be fired.
(d) Maturin is ready to retire and go home to Dianna.

13. Maturin falls overboard by _____________.
(a) Getting caught in the loop of a line and trips.
(b) Trying to catch small animals with a net.
(c) Leaning too far over the bow.
(d) Slipping off the rigging.

14. What does Maturin respond to Horner?
(a) He had no idea Mrs. Horner was pregnant.
(b) He did not help Horner's wife abort the baby.
(c) He did not know Horner was still impotent.
(d) He tried to get Mrs. Horner to talk to her husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the captured vessel sent?

2. What does Aubrey do when Maturin goes overboard?

3. What does Aubrey do when Maturin tells him what the crew is discussing?

4. What does Maturin hear the crew discuss?

5. How does Surprise end up on a mud bank?

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