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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) Aubrey is on board the Java.
(b) The Java has larger guns.
(c) The Java has two extra sails.
(d) The Java holds many, many more men than Constitution.

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

3. What happens to Maturin?
(a) He reveals that he has some dried jerky.
(b) He begins to have prolonged cramping.
(c) He dies.
(d) He becomes unconscious.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin do after Java strikes her colors?

2. On what does Aubrey instruct his midshipmen?

3. Who is Yorke?

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

5. Who have all taken passage in the same boat?

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