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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin play up?
(a) A minor injury on a child.
(b) A minor injury that Aubrey suffers.
(c) A minor injury that he suffers.
(d) The wonder of birds' nest soup.

2. After whom is Aubrey's new ship named?
(a) The Sultan of Pulo Prabang.
(b) A spice his wife loves.
(c) No one.
(d) A horse he once owned.

3. What does Raffles' wife ask of Aubrey?
(a) To take her along to go to England.
(b) To hire her husband for this one trip.
(c) To take aboard two young midshipmen.
(d) Nothing.

4. How does Kesegaran get to the island?
(a) In a proa.
(b) The slaver ship she was on wrecks.
(c) On a French privateer.
(d) She lives there.

5. Who does Maturin encounter that he knows on the trip on the junk?
(a) One of the sailors on the French privateer.
(b) One of the sailors on the French frigate.
(c) One of the pirates.
(d) One of the Chinese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin want to do about the Cornélie?

2. Who is Fox's clerk?

3. Approximately how many men are marooned on an unnamed island?

4. Who is presumed lost at sea?

5. What does the captain of the force who assaults Aubrey's camp wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aubrey offer Maturin and why do they decide to go to Sweeting's Island?

2. What happens to Maturin's fortune?

3. How does Paulton help Maturin with Colman and what is Maturin's ultimate objective concerning Colman?

4. Who does the Nutmeg of Consolation encounter and what do they learn?

5. Why is Aubrey and his crew marooned?

6. What action does Maturin take with the information he gains from the pirates and what does he hope to accomplish by his actions?

7. When will the schooner be completed, and what will the men do once it is built?

8. What does Maturin give Paulton for his help?

9. What does Maturin do that gains the men assistance?

10. How do Maturin and Martin renew their acquaintance and what is Aubrey's response?

(see the answer keys)

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