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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?
(a) To make it look sloppy and unkempt.
(b) He makes it able to float even if several compartments below deck are filled.
(c) He increases its fire power.
(d) He makes it appear to be a pirate vessel.

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

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

4. What must Aubrey do to ensure an English victory?
(a) Wait for the Cornélie to use up her powder.
(b) Get quite close to the Cornélie.
(c) Have the first strike.
(d) Stay a long range from the Cornélie.

5. About what does Maturin brood?
(a) Being poor.
(b) That he cannot search the nearby islands for new specimens.
(c) About his son's recent bout with malaria.
(d) About his wife is in ill health.

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

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

8. 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 the Cornélie was sunk by pirates that morning.
(d) That a large pirate fleet is not far away.

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

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

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

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

13. When will the ambush take place?
(a) Early the next morning.
(b) In the middle of that night.
(c) Aubrey has decided to make a run for England and forget the ambush.
(d) It cannot because he will not get there in time.

14. 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 of Consolation is a Dutch merchant vessel.
(d) That the Nutmeg is there to resupply the Cornélie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Aubrey grow jealous?

2. Who is offered a command position?

3. What does Maturin diagnose?

4. Who fixes the problem with the Nutmeg Consolation's sailing problem?

5. When must Aubrey reach his destination?

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