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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Surprise rendezvous unexpectedly?
(a) Several Indiamen.
(b) The USS Constitution.
(c) The HMS Dagger.
(d) A French privateer.

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

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

4. What is Maturin's position on board the Surprise?
(a) Gunner's mate.
(b) Surgeon.
(c) First Officer.
(d) First mate.

5. From where are earwigs supposedly removed?
(a) The noses of crew members.
(b) The brains of crew members.
(c) The ears of crew members.
(d) The heart of crew members.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Allen discuss at great length?

2. What request does Maturin make of Aubrey concerning his friend?

3. Who recognizes Aubrey and Maturin on the ship the Surprise encounters?

4. What mission is Aubrey given?

5. What does Wray constantly work to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who fails to return to the ship and what is learned about them?

2. Who commands Surprise and what is the ship doing at the beginning of the novel?

3. Where are Martin and Maturin really excited about the idea of shore leave?

4. What happens to Surprise, and where do they go to take care of the problem?

5. What problems develop in sick berth?

6. What does Maturin hear the crew discussing, and what does Maturin do?

7. What does Maturin learn about HMS Danaë?

8. What does Aubrey do with the Danaë?

9. Why does Aubrey start to seek land?

10. Where does Surprise reach at the opening to chapter 6, and what does it do there?

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