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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What captured ship reinforces Aubrey's squadron?
(a) Manche.
(b) Magicienne.
(c) Bellone.
(d) Vénus.

2. What do Maturin and McAdam continue to do?
(a) Being friends.
(b) Trying to get off their addictions.
(c) Disscuss Clonfert's treatment.
(d) Trying to get Clonfert out of the navy.

3. Where did Pym do his raid?
(a) Near Carolinia.
(b) Near Mauritius.
(c) Near Ponte du Diable.
(d) Near Cape Town.

4. What does Farquhar become?
(a) Admiral of the navy.
(b) Commander in Chief.
(c) Governor of La Reunion.
(d) Prime Minister.

5. What does the squadron do after the ships were separated?
(a) Go to French Guinea.
(b) Return to Rodriquez.
(c) Return to Cape Town.
(d) Return to England.

6. Why are the British ships separated?
(a) They were hit with a new squadron of French ships.
(b) They were lost in heavy fog.
(c) A tidal wave.
(d) A hurricane.

7. Where does Clonfert capture a fort?
(a) French Guinea.
(b) Mauritius.
(c) Carolinia.
(d) Port-Louis.

8. What has Maturin's propaganda done to the locals?
(a) Has made them run.
(b) Has seeded discontent.
(c) Has made them angry at the British.
(d) Has caused them to join the army.

9. What was a decisive blow in favor of England?
(a) Capture of two French islands.
(b) Taking the head French admiral captive.
(c) Destroying the entire French fleet.
(d) Blowing up the garrison at Mauritius.

10. What ship does Pullings bring to help Aubrey?
(a) Otter.
(b) Emma, a transport.
(c) Magicienne
(d) Wasp.

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

12. What has the frigate Minerva been assigned to do?
(a) Blockade the French garrison.
(b) Reinforce the French garrison.
(c) Blockade the English port.
(d) Reinforce the British forces.

13. What happens to the Raisonable after the squadron returns to Cape Town?
(a) It is retired.
(b) It's sent to England.
(c) It's sent to French Guinea.
(d) It is scraped.

14. What happens when Corbett engages the French by himself?
(a) He recaptures two ships.
(b) He is sunk.
(c) Africaine is damaged and captured.
(d) He sinks three French ships.

15. What arrives in Cape Town that cheers everyone?
(a) Fresh fruits and vegetables.
(b) Letters from home.
(c) Orders to return to England.
(d) Casks of wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is much of the French fleet discovered?

2. Why does Maturin receive a huge sum of gold?

3. To where does the squadron go when it leaves Cape Town?

4. From the discussions between McAdam and Maturin what does the word palliative means?

5. How was Maturin's recovery?

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