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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was the news disseminated?
(a) Through Admiral Nelson's aide.
(b) Via a letter from Diana Villiers.
(c) From Maturin's wife.
(d) From one of the sailors who deserted the Leopard.

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

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

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

6. Of what are some American agents accusing Aubrey?
(a) Lying.
(b) Executing an American soldier on the Leopard.
(c) Sedition.
(d) War crimes.

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

8. What famous joke of Aubrey's does Aubrey perpetuate on Maturin?
(a) The albatross joke.
(b) The weevil joke.
(c) The Davy Jones' locker joke.
(d) The parrot joke.

9. What seems a possibility to the men after a few days?
(a) They are on the wrong course.
(b) Starvation.
(c) They will start encountering other vessels as they have entered a shipping lane.
(d) They will sight land soon.

10. What does the vessel turn out to be?
(a) The USS Constitution.
(b) A pirate vessel.
(c) A US merchant vessel.
(d) A Dutch freighter.

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

12. What is an accurate description of Wallis?
(a) Well-informed and insightful.
(b) A well-meaning, but incompetent person.
(c) Slothful.
(d) A drunk and ne'r do well.

13. How many men are in Aubrey's life boat?
(a) 10.
(b) 13.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

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

15. What do Aubrey and the Leopard crew volunteer to do?
(a) Serve on the boarding crew.
(b) Guard the diplomat and his retinue.
(c) Serve the forward gun battery.
(d) Man the rigging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Constitution land?

2. Who calls upon Wallis?

3. What does Aubrey strenuously argue to retain?

4. Where is Aubrey to recover?

5. Where does La Flèche stop to resupply?

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