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

2. What was the mission when Mr. Allen sailed with Colnett?
(a) Mapping the South Pole region.
(b) Whaling-and-exploration voyage in the South Pacific.
(c) Mapping the North Pole region.
(d) Finding sunken treasure ships.

3. What happens to over half of the whales killed?
(a) They are brought successfully to port.
(b) They are lost and not rendered into oil.
(c) They are eaten by sharks.
(d) They have no oil and are sunk.

4. What region does the Surprise pass through that is considered difficult?
(a) The Bermuda Triangle.
(b) No area is any more difficult than any other area.
(c) The lee side of the West Indies islands.
(d) The doldrums.

5. Why do whaling ships have prominent crow's nests?
(a) To balance the ship when a whale carcass is attached.
(b) To be able to bombard the whale from a goodly height.
(c) To signal other ships that a particular whale is a ship's find.
(d) To facilitate spotting whales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Maturin observe trying to flirt with Mrs. Horner?

2. What does Dundas suggest to Aubrey?

3. Where does Aubrey recruit some dozen of the new sailors on the Surprise?

4. What does Sir Ives say about the USS Norfolk?

5. What does Aubrey notice as Surprise sails South?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Surprise encounters the outrigger with the Polynesian women?

2. What does Horner do to himself and how does the crew react?

3. Who does Surprise encounter?

4. What happens when Maturin and Aubrey return to the Surprise?

5. What beside crew members will be on Surprise and is this normal?

6. What does Aubrey have to do before setting sail after the Norfolk and why?

7. How does the dinner engagement affect the rumor? What other rumor about Maturin and Mrs. Fielding is circulating?

8. What does Aubrey learn about Norfolk and how does his haste ultimately slow things down?

9. What happens when Maturin comes on deck during a storm?

10. What does Maturin do aboard the Danaë?

(see the answer keys)

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