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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are in the letters to Sophie?
(a) Questions about news at home.
(b) Information about Aubrey's upcoming assignment.
(c) Aubrey's thoughts and reports of many current events.
(d) Questions about his new son.

2. What does Aubrey do on the voyage?
(a) Helps Maturin with his collection.
(b) Takes turn doing watches on the bridge.
(c) Practises his sword skills.
(d) Writes many lengthy letters home.

3. Where is Aubrey's boat headed?
(a) Peru.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Central America.
(d) Antigua.

4. Who expresses admiration for Aubrey's exploits and tenacity?
(a) The Governor.
(b) No one.
(c) The Admiral.
(d) The tribal chief.

5. About how many nautical miles does the ship cover daily?
(a) 200-250.
(b) 150.
(c) 90.
(d) 400.

6. How are Aubrey's men received?
(a) With hostility.
(b) With open arms and lots of food and water.
(c) With kindness but they are also rationing food.
(d) Suspiciously.

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

8. What is going to happen to the Leopard?
(a) It is being converted to a transport.
(b) It is being refitted with larger canons.
(c) It is being scuttled.
(d) It is being sold to a private merchant.

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

10. Who rescues Aubrey's boat?
(a) The US Constitution.
(b) A Brazilian fisher vessel.
(c) HMS Java.
(d) HMS Acasita.

11. 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.

12. Who calls upon Wallis?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Admiral Hornblower.
(d) First Mate Johnson.

13. What helps the dehydration a little?
(a) A heavy rain.
(b) Distilling a tiny bit of salt water.
(c) Eating raw fish.
(d) Nothing.

14. What game does Maturin believe cricket resembles?
(a) Crochet.
(b) Rugby.
(c) Hurley.
(d) Lawn tennis.

15. What course of action makes sense?
(a) Staging the battle in three phases.
(b) Running out to open sea.
(c) A boarding party.
(d) Staying out of range of the Constitution's guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin realize?

2. What is an accurate description of Wallis?

3. At what does Java fail?

4. What happens to Maturin?

5. Who rescues Aubrey from making a serious faux pas?

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