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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the Java's favor?
(a) The Java has larger guns.
(b) The Java has two extra sails.
(c) Aubrey is on board the Java.
(d) The Java holds many, many more men than Constitution.

2. How long is the life boat in which Aubrey and his men float?
(a) 24 feet.
(b) 14 feet.
(c) 18 feet.
(d) 32 feet.

3. Where does La Flèche stop to resupply?
(a) A small port on Madagascar.
(b) Bora Bora.
(c) Cape Town.
(d) An Italian port.

4. Over what does Maturin agonize when on board the La Flèche?
(a) How to categorize some of the odd species he has collected.
(b) Why he made such a fool of himself on the cricket field.
(c) His numerous natural history specimens.
(d) What he will tell his wife who did not think he was returning to her.

5. What do the men do to the food and water in the boat?
(a) Ration it.
(b) Eat it before it spoils.
(c) They didn't get any food or water in the boat.
(d) Divide it equally among the men.

6. Who does Aubrey call upon when he goes ashore?
(a) The Admiral.
(b) The Governor.
(c) The main Tribal Chief.
(d) His best friend's wife.

7. On what does Aubrey instruct his midshipmen?
(a) Shipboard etiquette.
(b) Storm types.
(c) Piloting.
(d) Navigation.

8. Who is Yorke?
(a) The cook.
(b) The second mate.
(c) The ship's steward.
(d) The Captain of the La Flèche.

9. Who rescues Aubrey from making a serious faux pas?
(a) The cabin boy.
(b) The ship's steward.
(c) The second mate.
(d) Aubrey.

10. What is going to happen to the Leopard's crew?
(a) The Admiral has not yet decided.
(b) They will stay with the Leopard.
(c) They will be disbursed among the Admiral's other ships.
(d) They will sail back to England and be assigned to other ships.

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

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

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

14. What do the sailors believe when they encounter a vessel?
(a) It is a French frigate.
(b) It is from Brazil.
(c) It is a merchant vessel.
(d) It is a friendly vessel at an appointed rendezvous.

15. Why does Christmas of 1812 pass with some gloom?
(a) The sailors are not in the thick of the war.
(b) The war is not over.
(c) Aubrey's men had expected to celebrate Christmas in England.
(d) The war is not going well.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what vessel is Aubrey traveling to England?

2. Who expresses admiration for Aubrey's exploits and tenacity?

3. What does Maturin realize?

4. What does the vessel turn out to be?

5. What civilian is on board the ship?

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