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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin find when he goes to gather the nests?
(a) He cannot find them again.
(b) The nests had all been put to the torch by the attackers.
(c) A wounded Dyak.
(d) Some Chinese children gathering the nests.

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

3. Who is Fox's clerk?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Jones.
(c) Edwards.
(d) Stafford.

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

5. What suddenly lands on the beach?
(a) A vast war canoe.
(b) A whale.
(c) Pieces of the French privateer.
(d) A huge number of jelly fish.

6. To whom does Maturin deliver the treaty?
(a) The chief of the Dyaks.
(b) The Governor of Tahiti.
(c) The Admiral of the Eastern fleet.
(d) The Governor.

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

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

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

10. Who does Maturin spy one morning when he wakes up?
(a) A pirate.
(b) A French privateer approaching the bay.
(c) What he thinks is an angel.
(d) A Dyak woman.

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

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

13. What is the effect of the aftermath of the attack?
(a) Rage.
(b) Renewed industry to effect a departure from the island.
(c) Discouragement.
(d) Optimism that they can weather anything.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Maturin want to do about the Cornélie?

3. With what does Aubrey arm the Nutmeg of Consolation?

4. What does the Captain of Marines have his men construct?

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

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