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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 is the weather like as Aubrey looks out over the harbor after the questioning?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Clear and warm.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Dense fog.

2. What does Aubrey think about in relation to Broke?
(a) Aubrey's past history with Broke.
(b) Whether Broke is still on the Constitution.
(c) If Broke would grant Aubrey a little more freedom.
(d) If Broke is as good a Captain as Aubrey is.

3. Who is aged, dissipated by alcohol, and fairly crass of speech?
(a) Wogan.
(b) Villiers.
(c) George Herapath.
(d) Alyers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Maturin speak to a priest?

3. What is Villiers to Maturin?

4. What does the HMS Shannon do?

5. Who does Maturin shoot dead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one thing that is perhaps likable about George Herapath?

2. What happens to Maturin in Chapter 7 that makes it obvious that he needs to come up with a viable escape plan very soon?

3. What is humorous about Aubrey's daily observations of the bay?

4. Who ambushes Maturin and what is humorous about his actions?

5. How does Villiers seem to Maturin and what actions has she taken that were unwise?

6. How does Maturin figure out that he has been identified as the intelligence officer and what is the implication?

7. How does Maturin explain his engagement to Villiers to Aubrey and what does this engagement say about Maturin's character?

8. What happens that even in the midst of the drama of escape is humorous?

9. About what does Maturin caution Villiers and why do you think he does so?

10. Why do you think Aubrey feels it is justified to violate his "parole," which he gives as an officer and gentleman?

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