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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Maturin when the coca leaves are all gone?
(a) He is relieved.
(b) He suffers withdrawal.
(c) He decides to brew some gin.
(d) He has no means of medicating crew injuries and he's mad.

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

4. What do they find when they enter the harbor?
(a) The Cornélie about to raise anchor.
(b) No Cornélie.
(c) The Cornélie is already a burning wreckage.
(d) The Cornélie anchored in shallow water.

5. What does Aubrey offer to Maturin?
(a) To split the recent prize money with him.
(b) To send him back to England to settle his affairs.
(c) To lend him money for his son's schooling.
(d) To purchase the Surprise.

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

7. What does Aubrey hope the Captain on the Cornélie will believe?
(a) That the Nutmeg is unarmed.
(b) That there are more French in the area.
(c) That the Nutmeg is there to resupply the Cornélie.
(d) That the Nutmeg of Consolation is a Dutch merchant vessel.

8. Who exchanges gunfire with Cornélie?
(a) Shannon.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Triton.
(d) Nutmeg.

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

10. Where does the French captain plant to bring on water aboard?
(a) Nil Desperandum.
(b) Deserate.
(c) Nillium.
(d) Pulag Ser.

11. What are the two girls eventually named?
(a) Susan and Emily.
(b) Sarah and Susan.
(c) Mary and Martha.
(d) Emily and Sarah.

12. What does Cornélie do in response to Nutmeg's heading out to sea?
(a) Shoots a couple rounds after them but declines to pursue.
(b) It can't do anything as it is replacing its main mast.
(c) Gathers her boats and men and hoists anchor for pursuit.
(d) It relies upon the man-o-war to give chase.

13. Upon what sort of variables is Aubrey's plan contingent?
(a) The tide being high enough to pass over the great reef in the passage.
(b) Whether Cornélie decides to maintain pursuit.
(c) Wind, current, tide and timing.
(d) If his gunpowder can dry quickly enough.

14. How do the girls adapt to ship life?
(a) They cry for their parents all the time.
(b) They are constantly seasick.
(c) Surprisingly well.
(d) They want to go home.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?

3. When will the ambush take place?

4. What type of armament does the Cornélie possess?

5. What does Aubrey contemplate as they near the place they expect to encounter the French?

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