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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Cornélie do?
(a) Blows up.
(b) Gets away.
(c) Strikes her colors.
(d) Sinks.

2. What is near where Surprise docks?
(a) Not much of anything.
(b) A penal colony.
(c) A British consulate.
(d) A leper colony.

3. How do Maturin and Martin find two young girls?
(a) When looking through the village.
(b) When they are trying to grab some Swifts' nests.
(c) The girls are in a fruit tree.
(d) While searching for fruit.

4. Why are Maturin and Martin combing the island despite the illness?
(a) They stay far enough away from the town.
(b) They are immune as they've had it before.
(c) They believe the pathogen has died out.
(d) It is essential to get the crew some fruit.

5. What happens a few hours after the dinner ends?
(a) The Nutmeg of Consolation is sabotaged.
(b) The French captain of the Cornélie jumps overboard.
(c) The Triton is mysteriously sunken.
(d) The fleet disperses.

6. Why does the Nutmeg of Consolation sail poorly?
(a) Because the topmast stay is broken.
(b) Because the winds are coming out of the northwest.
(c) In order to give Cornélie the ability to keep up.
(d) Because the jib boom is too warped.

7. How does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?
(a) He increases its fire power.
(b) To make it look sloppy and unkempt.
(c) He makes it able to float even if several compartments below deck are filled.
(d) He makes it appear to be a pirate vessel.

8. What do the girls adopt as pets?
(a) The ship cats.
(b) An albatross with a broken wing and its baby.
(c) Rats.
(d) Two seagulls.

9. What will Aubrey do in the Passage?
(a) Set out net mines.
(b) Find Admiral Leighton's fleet.
(c) Turn into a hidden area.
(d) Disguise his vessel once again.

10. What do Martin and Maturin exchange over the next few weeks?
(a) News, Adventures and specimens.
(b) Letters from their wives that the other had.
(c) Medical advice.
(d) Opinions on the hereditary line of gibbons.

11. What type of armament does the Cornélie possess?
(a) Carronades.
(b) Light cannon.
(c) A mixture of heavy, medium and light cannon.
(d) Heavy cannon.

12. For whom does Aubrey host a dinner?
(a) The captains of the flotilla and captured French officers.
(b) The Sultan of Imar.
(c) Admiral Leighton and his staff.
(d) The Governor of Madagascar.

13. Of what does Aubrey resume command?
(a) Triton.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Nutmeg of Consolation.
(d) Cornélie.

14. What does Maturin diagnose?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Bubonic plague.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Dengue fever.

15. What port does the Surprise reach?
(a) Brisbane
(b) Newcastle.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Hobart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the French captain plant to bring on water aboard?

2. How does Maturin find the guests at a dinner party?

3. Who does Maturin offend?

4. What does Maturin think poverty may affect?

5. What is strange about the bay at Sweeting's Island?

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