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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. How is Aubrey's arm?
(a) Nearly unusable.
(b) Much better.
(c) Completely recovered.
(d) It will never function properly again.

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

3. Who does Maturin shoot dead?
(a) Dubreuil.
(b) Johnson.
(c) No one.
(d) Villiers.

4. What does Aubrey ask of George Herapath?
(a) To tell him who Dubreuil is.
(b) To speak to the Navy Intelligence on Aubrey's behave.
(c) Help and silence.
(d) To shelter Villiers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Philip Broke?

2. How does George Herapath view the current war?

3. Where does Maturin drag the corpse(s)?

4. Upon what does Johnson spend vast sums of money?

5. Who is cleared in a court martial?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Harry Johnson and what is his connection to Wogan?

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

3. What does Maturin do that seems contrary to his work as a doctor?

4. Why does Maturin hedge about being an agent even though he has no intention of accepting the position?

5. How does Michael Herapath earn a living and why is this odd?

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

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

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

9. What is Mr. Herapath's task in the scheme to effect an escape for Villiers, Aubrey and Maturin and how does he fail at it? What does this say about Mr. Herapath?

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

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