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

2. What is Babbington's title in the Navy?
(a) General.
(b) Captain.
(c) Admiral.
(d) Corporal.

3. Who is England at conflict with in this book?
(a) India.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

4. Why does Aubrey not want to sail on the Worcester?
(a) He knows it will get into danger.
(b) He has been on it before.
(c) He wants to stay home.
(d) He thinks it is beneath him.

5. What kind of birds flocks over the blockade?
(a) Quail.
(b) Seagulls.
(c) Crows.
(d) Cranes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rowan come aboard the ship?

2. What do the officers gossip about while at the first stop?

3. What is Latham's ship called?

4. How many guns are on the Jemmapes?

5. How does Maturin protect Yeats?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two events in this chapter cheer up Aubrey?

2. How is Maturin wounded?

3. Why does Harte give Aubrey the mission he does when he first takes command of the blockade?

4. What does Aubrey think of Ismail Bey?

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

6. How does Aubrey feel when the Worcester is declared as unseawothy?

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

8. What kind of illness does Aubrey battle while Maturin is away?

9. How is Somers a danger to the whole ship?

10. What about Martin does Maturin not like, and what does he do about this?

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