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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Passage does his ship run down?
(a) The Straits of Pukuoni.
(b) Salibabu.
(c) Great Horned.
(d) Zanzibare.

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

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

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

7. Why does Aubrey turn tail and run?
(a) He learns the gunpowder on his ship is wet.
(b) His bluff has failed.
(c) He sees a French man-o-war in port also.
(d) He learns that the Cornélie has more guns than he was told.

8. What does Aubrey think of the Surprise?
(a) It seems small now.
(b) It needs more carronades.
(c) It has been kept immaculate.
(d) It is malodorous.

9. What does the Cornélie's captain realize?
(a) That his sails are not in ready position.
(b) That the Nutmeg is disguised.
(c) That his crew is not returning to the ship.
(d) That the Nutmeg is not armed as well as the Cornélie.

10. What is the advantage of the French armament?
(a) Accuracy at long range.
(b) Maneuverability because the ship is light.
(c) Larger balls which means greater damage.
(d) Being able to send sustained barrages at the Nutmeg.

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

12. 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.

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

14. Whose history and customs does the crew discuss?
(a) None.
(b) That of Sydney.
(c) That of Freemantle.
(d) That of New South Wales.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they find when they enter the harbor?

2. What does Maturin think poverty may affect?

3. Of what does Aubrey resume command?

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

5. What do Martin and Maturin exchange over the next few weeks?

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