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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is critical after the attack?
(a) Food supplies are critically low.
(b) A way to summon help.
(c) A way to find more wood for cooking fires.
(d) A way to retrieve the tools.

2. What do the men do for entertainment?
(a) Play craps.
(b) Play whist.
(c) Play cricket.
(d) Play cards.

3. What does Maturin spend his time and money doing?
(a) Learning how to play cricket.
(b) Buying specimen jars and preservatives.
(c) Putting in medical supplies.
(d) Various machinations to deny the French resupply at various ports.

4. Why has a Dutch-built ship sunk?
(a) It carried the plague.
(b) It hit a reef.
(c) It was in a fire fight with an English man-o-war.
(d) It was too old for the sea.

5. What does Maturin send to a Chinese junk?
(a) A child with a message.
(b) A present.
(c) A peace offering.
(d) A stack of nests.

6. About what does Maturin discuss with Aubrey?
(a) If the French privateer is likely to return.
(b) Whether the men should split into several camps for security.
(c) When the HMS Justice will start missing them.
(d) Whether his message is actually delivered by Kesegaran.

7. Who is William Grimshaw?
(a) A sailor who becomes good friends with Killick.
(b) The accountant for the Governor.
(c) A lieutenant on board.
(d) The quartermaster for the ground forces.

8. Why is Maturin concerned about his wife?
(a) Because her brother is trying to take her money.
(b) Because she is very ill.
(c) Because she is pregnant.
(d) Because his fortune is lost.

9. What is the name of their ship that wrecked?
(a) HMS Diane.
(b) HMS Leopard.
(c) HMS Shannon.
(d) HMS Surprise.

10. What does Raffles' wife ask of Aubrey?
(a) To hire her husband for this one trip.
(b) Nothing.
(c) To take her along to go to England.
(d) To take aboard two young midshipmen.

11. What effect does the method Aubrey uses to arm his ship have?
(a) It covers both short and long-range possibilites.
(b) It enables more men in the rigging to pick off boarding parties.
(c) It has a heavy punch up close but no long-range accuracy.
(d) It makes the ship lighter and therefore faster.

12. What does the captain of the force who assaults Aubrey's camp wear?
(a) An English officer's uniform.
(b) A green head cloth.
(c) A green loin cloth.
(d) A gold three-tiered necklace.

13. Where is the unnamed island?
(a) The South China Sea.
(b) In the Indian Ocean.
(c) In the Atlantic Ocean.
(d) Near Cape Horn.

14. What does Aubrey do with the cannons?
(a) Sink the attacker's boat.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shoot after the retreating attackers to no avail.
(d) Set up a defensive parameter.

15. Who were left by their previous ship for various offenses?
(a) Miller and Oakes.
(b) Grimshaw and Killick.
(c) Jones and Bredford.
(d) Pullings and Martin.

Short Answer Questions

1. After whom is Aubrey's new ship named?

2. Who is inspecting the articles in the camp?

3. For what are the nests good?

4. Why does Maturin collapse?

5. Who owns the Chinese junk?

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