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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mowett's title in the Navy?
(a) Corporal.
(b) Second Lieutenant.
(c) Commandant.
(d) Admiral.

2. What does Yeats say will ruin him?
(a) Salt water.
(b) Impressments.
(c) Nausea.
(d) Tobacco spit.

3. What does Maturin do for the Navy?
(a) All of these.
(b) He is a sailor.
(c) He is a secret agent.
(d) He is a cartographer.

4. Where is Maturin called away to?
(a) India.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

5. What does Aubrey dislike about his father?
(a) His debt.
(b) His treatment of his new wife.
(c) All of these.
(d) His political impropriety.

6. How do the crew feel during the blockade duty?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Bored.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Excited.

7. What forces the Worcester to leave the blockade?
(a) A storm.
(b) A court ruling.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A battle.

8. What do the officers gossip about while at the first stop?
(a) Other officers.
(b) The personalities of the crew.
(c) All of these.
(d) What the mission will be.

9. What does Mowett scold Maturin for on the ship?
(a) Not having his official papers.
(b) Not having luggage.
(c) Being late.
(d) Making the Captain mad.

10. What is Maturin's first name?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Sylvan.
(c) Scott.
(d) Severus.

11. What region is Thornton most worried about with the blockade?
(a) The Ionian region.
(b) The French region.
(c) The Baltic region.
(d) The Mediterranean region.

12. How many guns are on the Jemmapes?
(a) 58.
(b) 74.
(c) 64.
(d) 88.

13. Who gets mad about the treatment of the birds that land on the ship?
(a) Thornton.
(b) Martin.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Graham.

14. What is Nathaniel Martin's job on the ship?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Shipmate.
(c) Parson.
(d) Surgeon.

15. Why does Aubrey delay setting sail on the Worcester?
(a) He is waiting for his paper.
(b) He needs a favorable wind.
(c) He is waiting for Maturin.
(d) He needs the all clear signal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does someone get mad about how the crew treats the birds that land on the ship?

2. What is Babbington's title in the Navy?

3. What causes a crew member to be so disobedient to the order about the birds?

4. Why does Maturin live away from his wife when he is in town?

5. Who is badly injured after the run-in with the Jemmapes?

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