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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who organizes the shipwrecked men's camp?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Welby.
(d) Martin.

2. To whom does the Chinese junk have to pay tribute?
(a) The Dutch.
(b) Pirates.
(c) The French.
(d) No one.

3. Approximately how many men are marooned on an unnamed island?
(a) 157.
(b) 2000.
(c) 54.
(d) 448.

4. How does Maturin spend the next few days after collapsing?
(a) Sleeping and eating.
(b) Resting and reading his nature books.
(c) In a semi-delirious state.
(d) Creating a concoction for his problem.

5. Who does Maturin encounter that he knows on the trip on the junk?
(a) One of the pirates.
(b) One of the Chinese.
(c) One of the sailors on the French privateer.
(d) One of the sailors on the French frigate.

6. What does Maturin do to supplement the food supply?
(a) Hunt wild pigs.
(b) Capture wild goats to milk.
(c) Gather roots and berries.
(d) Fish.

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

8. To where does the junk take the British sailors?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) Batavia.
(c) Taiwain.
(d) England.

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

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

11. How had Fox behaved?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Knowledgeable.
(c) Intrepid.
(d) Increasingly irrational and haughty.

12. To what island does Aubrey transport the person in question 38?
(a) New Guinea.
(b) Pulo Prabang.
(c) Batavia.
(d) Jarkarta.

13. Where departs for Batavia in one of the ship's boats?
(a) Martin.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Pullings.
(d) Fox.

14. Who owns the Chinese junk?
(a) Lee Yung.
(b) Su Je.
(c) Je Wong.
(d) Li Po.

15. Who is presumed lost at sea?
(a) Fox.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Sexton.
(d) Cornelius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?

2. What is the effect of the aftermath of the attack?

3. Whose nests does Maturin find?

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

5. To whom does Maturin give bribes?

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