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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) Information about Aubrey's upcoming assignment.
(b) Questions about his new son.
(c) Aubrey's thoughts and reports of many current events.
(d) Questions about news at home.

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 are not just dead weight.
(d) They free up Java's men to board the Constitution.

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

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

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

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

7. What vessel will Aubrey be captaining once he arrives in England?
(a) The York.
(b) The Northhampton.
(c) The Leopard after its refitting.
(d) The Acasta.

8. Who do Maturin and Aubrey take on in Cricket?
(a) Some local sailors.
(b) The team from the La Flèche.
(c) Other members of the crew from the Leopard.
(d) The Admiral's prime team.

9. What good news does the Captain offer Aubrey?
(a) That the Acasta has been entirely re-fitted.
(b) That his wife knows he is alive.
(c) That his wife has had a son.
(d) That Aubrey is being considered as a fleet commander.

10. What does Maturin do after Java strikes her colors?
(a) Tends to the wounded.
(b) Operates on Aubrey's head.
(c) Runs down to his quarters to save his laudenum.
(d) Asks permission to retain his specimen collection.

11. What happens the first time they sight a vessel?
(a) They try to catch it by rowing.
(b) They almost collide with it but they don't see the small boat in the fog.
(c) They hail it but it ignore them.
(d) They try not to be seen since it is an American vessel.

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

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

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

15. What happens after several days in the sun?
(a) The men start hallucinating.
(b) The men start jumping into the water to cool off.
(c) The men are badly burned.
(d) Dehydration starts.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does Aubrey instruct his midshipmen?

2. What do the survivors do on the way to Brazil?

3. What do the men do to the food and water in the boat?

4. Who is Wallis?

5. How does Maturin find the Captain of the La Flèche?

(see the answer keys)

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