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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Maturin find the guests at a dinner party?
(a) Congenial.
(b) Hardbitten.
(c) Harsh.
(d) Offensive.

3. What happens to Cornélie as the ships exchange gun fire?
(a) It sustains hull damage.
(b) It drops back.
(c) It brings out a new, longrange gun.
(d) It increases speed.

4. What is the result of Maturin's encounter with the man he offends?
(a) They duel and Maturin kills the man.
(b) They duel and Maturin wounds him.
(c) They exchange insults but do not draw swords.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

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

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

9. With whom does Aubrey share his thoughts?
(a) Miller.
(b) Killick.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Oakes.

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

11. Why is the captain of the Triton offended?
(a) Because Aubrey pronounces his name incorrectly.
(b) By the Cornélie's captain.
(c) By the protocal required at the dinner.
(d) Because Maturin ignores him.

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

13. What is one attribute of the guests at a dinner party Maturin attends?
(a) They are mostly anti-Irish.
(b) They have no table manners.
(c) They drink huge quantities of alcohol.
(d) They are rude.

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

15. What does Cornélie continue to do?
(a) Pump out much water.
(b) Run with all her sails.
(c) Fire cannons though the range is too far.
(d) Try to get close enough to cut across Nutmeg's bow.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Maturin oblivious?

2. How does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?

3. Why does the Nutmeg of Consolation sail poorly?

4. What does Cornélie do in response to Nutmeg's heading out to sea?

5. What is the advantage of the French armament?

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