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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Surprise head for Sweeting's Island?
(a) To get wood for a new mast.
(b) To get fruit to fight scurvy among the crew.
(c) To get hardwoods to repair the ship's railings.
(d) To go into dry dock to repair a hole in the beam.

2. What does the crew want to name their new passengers?
(a) Faith and Hope.
(b) Faith and Charity.
(c) Charity and Hope.
(d) Thursday and Behemoth.

3. Who does Maturin offend?
(a) No one.
(b) Captain Lowe.
(c) Captain Connor.
(d) Governor Greeves.

4. Who fixes the problem with the Nutmeg Consolation's sailing problem?
(a) Miller.
(b) Aubrey and Richardson.
(c) Oakes.
(d) Pullings.

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

6. Who escorts Triton and the American prizes?
(a) HMS Shannon.
(b) HMS Leopard.
(c) Nutmeg of Consolation.
(d) Surprise.

7. What information does the Captain of the Dutch ship provide?
(a) That a cyclone is brewing on their path.
(b) Information about the movements of the Cornélie.
(c) That a large pirate fleet is not far away.
(d) That the Cornélie was sunk by pirates that morning.

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

9. What does the crew think is rather odd?
(a) That the birds stay with the ship.
(b) That the rats are so calm.
(c) That the two cats follow the girls everywhere.
(d) That the albatross allows Maturin to splint its wing.

10. What does Aubrey realize as he sights land that evening?
(a) He is too far west of his planned ambush.
(b) He is going to get to the ambush place just on time.
(c) He doesn't recognize the landmarks.
(d) He has misjudged the tide.

11. What does Aubrey signal Pullings to do?
(a) Turn and pursue Cornélie.
(b) Signal Cornélie for their surrender.
(c) Await the Shannon's help.
(d) Fix the rudder pin.

12. What temporarily prevents the Nutmeg of Consolation from steering?
(a) The rudder post breaks off.
(b) The sea anchor accidentally deploys.
(c) A lodged cannonball between the rudder post and stern.
(d) The pinion arm breaks.

13. What does Aubrey do immediately upon resuming his old command?
(a) Writes his wife.
(b) Writes the Admiralty.
(c) Has a tour and inspection.
(d) Promotes Oakes.

14. What does Aubrey share with Pullings?
(a) His belief that Pullings should have his own command.
(b) His misgivings about Oakes and Miller.
(c) His ideas about the upcoming battle.
(d) His misgivings about the Nutmeg Consolation.

15. Who appears on the horizon?
(a) The French man-o-war.
(b) Surprise.
(c) An American privateer.
(d) The HMS Shannon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose history and customs does the crew discuss?

2. What type of armament does the Cornélie possess?

3. How do Maturin and Martin find two young girls?

4. What does the Cornélie do?

5. What are the two girls eventually named?

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