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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 does Thornton feel about ship visiting?
(a) He does not like it.
(b) He says it depends on which ships do it.
(c) He doesn't care.
(d) He encourages it.

2. Why does Rowan come aboard the ship?
(a) As a trade for Somers.
(b) To get proper training.
(c) As a punishment.
(d) To help with the birds.

3. What kind of patient is Maturin?
(a) Patient and kind.
(b) Impatient and angry.
(c) Loud and painful.
(d) Scared and nervous.

4. How does Maturin protect Yeats?
(a) He gives him the early shift.
(b) He puts him in the brig.
(c) He declares him medically unfit.
(d) He assigns him as his assistant.

5. How does the narrator describe Maturin?
(a) All of these.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Routine.
(d) Introverted.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Maturin embarrassed when he first boards the Worcester?

2. Who gets mad about the treatment of the birds that land on the ship?

3. Why does Aubrey not want to sail on the Worcester?

4. What does Aubrey do before setting sail across the sea?

5. What is Maturin's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when a strong wind blows birds over the ship?

2. What do Aubrey and Maturin discuss about music?

3. How does Aubrey feel when Maturin is called to Spain, and why?

4. Why does Aubrey choose to captain the Worcester even though he doesn't want to?

5. What happens when Maturin boards the Worcester?

6. What do Maturin and Martin have in common, and what do they do together?

7. How does Martin convince people to not hurt the birds?

8. Why is a blockade duty so wearing on a ship and its crew?

9. What does blockade duty entail?

10. What is the Worcester's nickname, and why?

(see the answer keys)

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