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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kesegaran get to the island?
(a) In a proa.
(b) She lives there.
(c) The slaver ship she was on wrecks.
(d) On a French privateer.

2. What does Aubrey admire about the Captain of the Marines?
(a) His droll sense of humor.
(b) His ability at whist.
(c) His physique.
(d) His efficiency and devotion to duty.

3. For what purpose are the bribes?
(a) To assure that the harbormaster will give the Chinese safe passage.
(b) To get Matruin aboard the Cornélie for a trip back to England.
(c) He does not give any bribes.
(d) To delay Cornélie's refitting and resupply.

4. Where are the nests?
(a) In vast caves.
(b) In huge rubber trees.
(c) Buried in the sand.
(d) On the cliffs overlooking the ocean.

5. To whom does Maturin give bribes?
(a) A French captain.
(b) The chief of the Dyaks.
(c) The chief at Pulo Prabang.
(d) A friend.

6. Why is the Nutmeg of Consolation readied for sea in haste?
(a) Napoleon is gathering his forces near Brest.
(b) The former Governor needs to be at his new post immediately.
(c) There is a bad storm moving in.
(d) They are going to try to catch Cornélie.

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

8. Why do the sailors find Kesegaran interesting?
(a) She strips naked when hiking.
(b) She is sexually accomodating.
(c) She is seven feet tall.
(d) She wears European men's clothing.

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

10. How far do they figure they will have to sail to find assistance?
(a) About 200 miles.
(b) About 80 miles to India.
(c) About 60 miles to the East African coast.
(d) Almost to the European continent.

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

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

13. Upon what did the ship wreck?
(a) Rocks.
(b) A submerged vessel that wrecked earlier.
(c) An iceberg.
(d) A submerged reef.

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

15. Why does Maturin collapse?
(a) He drinks bad whiskey.
(b) He swam too fast getting away from a shark.
(c) He has contracted a tropical fever.
(d) He ran too far in the hot sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Aubrey when Maturin awakes from his illness?

2. To where does the junk take the British sailors?

3. How does Maturin spend the next few days after collapsing?

4. Whose nests does Maturin find?

5. Who will depart about the Cornélie?

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