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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of raid has Pym led?
(a) Successful but bloody.
(b) He was completely defeated.
(c) He was repelled but captured a captain.
(d) Moderately successful but no one was injured.

2. What happens to two English frigates?
(a) They accidentally ram each other.
(b) They are sunk by the French.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They run aground.

3. How do McAdam and Maturin spend their time?
(a) Playing checkers.
(b) Discussing medicine.
(c) Discussing Clonfert.
(d) Discussing the navy.

4. Why is the Groper sacrificed?
(a) To blow up the garrison.
(b) To be a temporary breakwater.
(c) To take civilians off the island.
(d) To draw the French out.

5. How does Clonfert handle the tactical situation?
(a) He mishandles it.
(b) He does very well.
(c) He allows Lambert to handle it.
(d) He doesn't deal with it.

6. How much damage did Clonfert's ship receive?
(a) Light.
(b) Moderate.
(c) Heavy.
(d) None.

7. What did Clonfert finally decide to do?
(a) Pursue an engagement for himself.
(b) Attack Mauritius.
(c) Return to the fleet.
(d) Return to Cape Town.

8. What does Aubrey do with some of his ships before going to Rodriquez?
(a) Sent to Mauritius.
(b) Left to blockade the French.
(c) Sent to La Reunion.
(d) Sent back to Cape Town.

9. Why does Maturin receive a huge sum of gold?
(a) To dispense the sailors' pay.
(b) For his actions during the war.
(c) All of his back pay.
(d) For bribes.

10. What does Clonfert claim?
(a) He has the French on the run.
(b) He has captured the French ships.
(c) He must run for the open sea.
(d) He has the French bottled up.

11. What happens to the ships in Cape Town?
(a) They are refitted.
(b) They are given new crews.
(c) They are sent to England.
(d) Nothing.

12. Who does the squadron take on when at Rodriquez?
(a) No one.
(b) British infantry.
(c) The civilians.
(d) Rebell French fighters.

13. Where is McAdam during the fight with the French?
(a) He's on the island in the fort.
(b) He's working on injured sailors.
(c) Unconscious due to alcohol.
(d) At Cape Town.

14. Who captains Iphigenia?
(a) Carson.
(b) Stole.
(c) Lambert.
(d) Blakely.

15. To where does the squadron go when it leaves Cape Town?
(a) French Guinea.
(b) La Verdana Island.
(c) La Reunion.
(d) The English Channel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Pullings bring the French to combat?

2. About what abstract human characteristic does Maturin ponder?

3. Where is much of the French fleet discovered?

4. Who commands the Groper?

5. What do Maturin and McAdam continue to do?

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