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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who have all taken passage in the same boat?
(a) The two doctors.
(b) The old crewmates from Leopard.
(c) All the ship's officers.
(d) All the bosun crew.

2. How does Maturin arouse humor among the cricket players and audience?
(a) He hits the wicket in the wrong direction.
(b) He trips on the way around the field.
(c) He faces the wrong way.
(d) He smashes the wicket to pieces.

3. How does Maturin find the Captain of the La Flèche?
(a) Arrogant and condescending.
(b) Entirely agreeable, well-read, and intelligent.
(c) Feckless.
(d) A fop.

4. How long is the life boat in which Aubrey and his men float?
(a) 32 feet.
(b) 14 feet.
(c) 18 feet.
(d) 24 feet.

5. How might the voyage back to England be described?
(a) Rough seas.
(b) Fraught with danger.
(c) Stimulating.
(d) Monotonous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many times have the Americans encountered the British?

3. How experienced is Maturin in cricket?

4. How many men are in Aubrey's life boat?

5. What separates all the life boats from each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are a couple signs that things are not going well for the men in the boat?

2. Do you think it is helpful for the author to present some background information from other books in the series, particularly the one just preceding this one?

3. Why is it somewhat miraculous that the HMS Leopard pulls into Pulo Batang successfully?

4. Why do you think the HMS Leopard is being converted to a transport?

5. Why do you think the sailors on board La Flèche do not take the war with the United States very seriously?

6. What are a couple other playful tongue-in-cheek type discussions that firmly entrench the fun tone of the novel?

7. What do you think it means that Raikes' body was gnawed upon and do you think that is acceptable?

8. How would you respond to being in open sea in an eighteen-foot boat with twelve other people?

9. Why would the men welcome being on board the HMS Java though it is quite crammed with people?

10. Why is Aubrey depressed at the news of the war?

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