View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin do to supplement the food supply?
(a) Hunt wild pigs.
(b) Fish.
(c) Gather roots and berries.
(d) Capture wild goats to milk.

2. Who does Maturin spy one morning when he wakes up?
(a) A French privateer approaching the bay.
(b) What he thinks is an angel.
(c) A pirate.
(d) A Dyak woman.

3. What does Aubrey admire about the Captain of the Marines?
(a) His efficiency and devotion to duty.
(b) His droll sense of humor.
(c) His ability at whist.
(d) His physique.

4. What effect does the method Aubrey uses to arm his ship have?
(a) It has a heavy punch up close but no long-range accuracy.
(b) It enables more men in the rigging to pick off boarding parties.
(c) It covers both short and long-range possibilites.
(d) It makes the ship lighter and therefore faster.

5. What does Maturin send to a Chinese junk?
(a) A stack of nests.
(b) A present.
(c) A peace offering.
(d) A child with a message.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin find when he goes to gather the nests?

2. How long does it take to repulse the attackers?

3. What does Maturin hope the Cornélie will be without?

4. Upon what did the ship wreck?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aubrey choose to arm his vessel and what is the advantage and disadvantage of doing so?

2. What does Maturin try to do with Sarah and Emily and what is the outcome?

3. How does the dinner for officers fare that Aubrey hosts?

4. Why is Aubrey and his crew marooned?

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

6. How does Maturin help the effort to catch the Cornélie?

7. How does Maturin become ill and what does he see when he awakens from a fever?

8. What has been Aubrey's chief concern and why?

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

10. Describe the fight between the Dyaks and the English sailors.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 774 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample