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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What Dutch ship does the Nutmeg of Consolation encounter?
(a) Reetjik.
(b) Roetgen.
(c) Araetjeer.
(d) Alkmaar.

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

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

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

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

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

9. When must Aubrey reach his destination?
(a) Before daybreak.
(b) Before Cornélie enters the passage.
(c) Within the first couple hours of darkness.
(d) By midnight.

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

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

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

13. Where does Surprise head from Sweeting Island?
(a) The Mediterranean.
(b) Brest.
(c) New South Wales.
(d) England.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the advantage of the French armament?

2. What happens to Cornélie as the ships exchange gun fire?

3. Of what does Aubrey grow jealous?

4. What does Aubrey signal Pullings to do?

5. What are the two girls eventually named?

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