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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Surprise get off the mud bank?
(a) They lighten the ship and wait for the tide to come in.
(b) The hole in the hull is repaired and the water is pumped out which allows her to float off it.
(c) The crew has to dig her out.
(d) She is pulled.

2. Where does Surprise sail?
(a) Due North away from the equator.
(b) Due south, crossing the equator that same day.
(c) Due east.
(d) Due west almost on the equator.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Horner claim about her husband?

2. What happens to Martin?

3. What news comes to Maturin when he is trying to decide what to tell Aubrey?

4. To whom does Coleman become wholly devoted?

5. How does Aubrey get updated information about the ship he is chasing?

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