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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Aubrey and Herapath plan?
(a) How to kill Dubreuil.
(b) How to waylay Johnson.
(c) How to get Maturin out of the hotel.
(d) How to get Villiers safely to England.

2. What does Maturin find among Johnson's papers?
(a) Signs that Johnson is a double agent.
(b) Maturin's marriage proposal.
(c) A note from the President of the United States.
(d) A check to Villiers for 10,000 dollars.

3. What field of study does Maturin recommend George Herapath encourage his son to pursue?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Trade.
(d) The military.

4. Who does Wogan blame for the false information she gives the Americans?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Villiers.
(c) Geroge Herapath.
(d) Maturin.

5. About what does Aubrey brood?
(a) The loss of the use of his shattered arm.
(b) His possible execution.
(c) Being on American soil.
(d) The English defeats at sea.

6. Who calls on Maturin at Asclepia?
(a) Evans.
(b) Herapath.
(c) Wogan.
(d) Lambert.

7. Who is cleared in a court martial?
(a) Liertenant Chad and the other surviving Java officers.
(b) Broke.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Aubrey.

8. Why does Maturin speak to a priest?
(a) To talk about his upcoming marriage.
(b) To ask after an old friend who is a Catholic priest in Boston.
(c) To confess that he commited treason.
(d) To confess killing a man.

9. How is Herapath tying to make a living?
(a) Working for his father.
(b) Horse breeding.
(c) Running guns.
(d) Translating Chinese poetry.

10. Who intervenes in Maturin's almost abduction?
(a) Some English officers.
(b) A local militiaman.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Some other sailors.

11. What do Aubrey and George Herapath find to discuss?
(a) The French revolution.
(b) The classics.
(c) Nautical matters.
(d) Horse racing.

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

13. Against what does Maturin warn Villiers?
(a) Saying too much.
(b) Not to say anything about the marriage proposal to Johnson.
(c) Drinking too much.
(d) Staying in her room where Johnson can find her.

14. How does Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers get out of the harbor?
(a) On a small boat.
(b) On the Arcuturas.
(c) Swimming.
(d) On board the Caroline.

15. How does Maturin know Wogan does not suspect him of any treachery from their last encounter?
(a) Wogan asks him for more documents.
(b) He is not sure how Wogan feels.
(c) Wogan is warm and friendly to Maturin.
(d) Wogan tells him she knows who betrayed Maturin.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does the Navy department interview Aubrey?

2. What does Villiers reveal when she returns to her room?

3. Of what do Johnson's plantation workers comprise?

4. How is Aubrey's arm?

5. What does Aubrey show Maturin later in the day after the attempted abduction?

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