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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Villiers reveal when she returns to her room?
(a) That Aubrey has been murdered.
(b) That she is unable to find help.
(c) That Johnson is dead.
(d) That there are soldiers on every street corner.

2. What is full of double entendre between Johnson and Maturin?
(a) Their initial conversation.
(b) The conversation between Maturin and George Herapath.
(c) The conversation between Aubrey and U.S. Naval Intelligence.
(d) The conversation between Villiers and Maturin.

3. How does Villiers seem in relation to Maturin?
(a) Needy.
(b) Weepy.
(c) Maudlin.
(d) Arrogant.

4. How does Maturin know about his newfound status?
(a) He receives an award.
(b) Wogan behaves differently to him.
(c) He is contacted by Charles Darwin.
(d) He is contacted by Scotland Yard.

5. Why would Maturin even consider becoming a double agent?
(a) To end the War of 1812.
(b) To earn more money.
(c) To learn about the American network of spies.
(d) To escape from the United States.

6. Who continues to recruit Maturin?
(a) Oxford University Naturalist Department.
(b) George Herapath.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Michael Herapath.

7. How does Johnson respond to news of the assault on Maturin?
(a) He seems indifferent.
(b) He is outraged.
(c) He uses it to again threaten Maturin.
(d) He is nonplussed.

8. Who takes the three fugitives on board?
(a) The HMS Java.
(b) The HMS Shannon.
(c) A Dutch frigate.
(d) A English freighter.

9. Of what do Johnson's plantation workers comprise?
(a) A large group of slaves, mostly his own progeny.
(b) He has no plantations to speak of.
(c) Well-paid freed slaves.
(d) Well-paid poor white farmers.

10. What is Villiers to Maturin?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A contact in British intelligence.
(c) Good friends for many years.
(d) His longtime love interest.

11. How is Maturin threatened?
(a) He is not threatened, merely entreated.
(b) By a thinly-veiled note from the Admiral of the Navies.
(c) By taking him to the Naval prison yard.
(d) By saying he will be handed over to the French.

12. What is the initial topic of discussion between Maturin and Johnson?
(a) About Aubrey.
(b) About Michael Herapath.
(c) About the war.
(d) About the bird species named boobies.

13. How does George Herapath view the current war?
(a) As an affront to English might.
(b) Justified.
(c) That it will be short lived.
(d) Deplorable and ridiculous.

14. What causes Maturin to flee through the streets of Boston to Villiers' hotel?
(a) He does not go to see Villiers.
(b) He is again beset with attackers.
(c) He is anxious to tell her he will marry her.
(d) He is afraid she is about to be killed.

15. For what does it seem Villiers looks to Maturin?
(a) Status.
(b) Rescue.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey watch in the dense fog?

2. What do Aubrey and Herapath plan?

3. Why does the group walk to the ship?

4. Who does Maturin go to see after speaking to Michael Herapath?

5. How does Aubrey respond to the Navy's questions?

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