View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What separates all the life boats from each other?
(a) It is regulation to do so.
(b) Anger among the crew members.
(c) Foul weather.
(d) The incompetence of some of the crew.

2. How does what the Leopard men do help the Java?
(a) It relieves some marines for small-arms work in the fighting tops.
(b) They can concentrate on long-distance warfare.
(c) They free up Java's men to board the Constitution.
(d) They are not just dead weight.

3. What about Maturin's collection most interests the crew?
(a) The spirits in which the specimens are soaking.
(b) The life 10 foot boa constrictor.
(c) The stuffed gorilla.
(d) The stuffed Komodo dragon.

4. What does Maturin realize?
(a) That Wogan believes the false papers to have originated with Aubrey
(b) That Aubrey is in grave danger.
(c) That Aubrey is still in danger of dying.
(d) That Wogan is in Boston.

5. What civilian is on board the ship?
(a) The wife of the Captain.
(b) None.
(c) The wife of the Brazilian diplomat.
(d) A diplomat and his retinue.

6. Upon what vessel is Aubrey traveling to England?
(a) The HMS Northhampton.
(b) A small private merchant vessel.
(c) The HMS Fortune.
(d) The La Flèche.

7. Who have all taken passage in the same boat?
(a) All the ship's officers.
(b) All the bosun crew.
(c) The two doctors.
(d) The old crewmates from Leopard.

8. Where does the Constitution lead Java?
(a) In circles.
(b) In to an American port.
(c) Towards Brazil.
(d) Out to sea.

9. How might the voyage back to England be described?
(a) Monotonous.
(b) Stimulating.
(c) Fraught with danger.
(d) Rough seas.

10. Why is the La Flèche abandoned?
(a) A couple sailors have the plague.
(b) It is on fire.
(c) It has been captured.
(d) It is overrun by rats.

11. What port has the HMS Leopard reached in Chapter 1?
(a) Pulo Batang.
(b) Cape Hope.
(c) Sydney.
(d) Tahiti.

12. What war do they learn has erupted?
(a) Between England and Russia.
(b) Between France and the United States of America.
(c) Between France and Russia.
(d) Between England and the United States of America.

13. Why does the Leopard make quite a stir when entering the port?
(a) She is flying Dutch colors.
(b) She is listing badly to starboard.
(c) She is the first English colors seen there in years.
(d) She was thought to be long lost at sea.

14. How does Maturin almost make a serious faux pas?
(a) By almost missing the Captain's table.
(b) By forgetting the Captain's name.
(c) By asking to examine the eye socket of a one-eyed sailor.
(d) By telling the first mate what Maturin thinks of the mate's mother.

15. What news depresses Aubrey?
(a) No news is what depresses Aubrey.
(b) News about his wife's death.
(c) News of the war.
(d) News about his assignment being given to another Captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Lambert decide to do?

2. What are in the letters to Sophie?

3. Where is Aubrey to recover?

4. How experienced is Maturin in cricket?

5. What is mainly responsible for the Leopard arriving at the port safely?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 595 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample