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

2. What does Maturin do after Java strikes her colors?
(a) Runs down to his quarters to save his laudenum.
(b) Tends to the wounded.
(c) Asks permission to retain his specimen collection.
(d) Operates on Aubrey's head.

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

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

5. Who is Pontet-Canet?
(a) The steward of the Constitution.
(b) One of the main commanders in the French and Indian wars.
(c) A Frenchman Maturin has seen before.
(d) A French officer on board the Constitutioni.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What vessel will Aubrey be captaining once he arrives in England?

3. How might the voyage back to England be described?

4. How does what the Leopard men do help the Java?

5. What civilian is on board the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the cricket match when Maturin joins the game and what tone does it set?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Maturin learn that explains the Navy's treatment of Aubrey?

8. What answers Aubrey's unspoken question as to why the Captain of the Java does not first engage in long-range gunfire before closing to board?

9. What tone for the novel is set and how is it set by the references to "Abraham"?

10. Why do the boats become separated and what are the advantages and disadvantages of that happening?

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