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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What is the Triton?
(a) A French frigate.
(b) A Dutch merchant vessel.
(c) An American privateer.
(d) An English privateer.

4. What are Aubrey's intentions?
(a) To find a place to hide out until Cornélie gives up.
(b) To run ahead of the wind as fast as possible.
(c) He has not yet decided.
(d) To encourage pursuit.

5. Upon what sort of variables is Aubrey's plan contingent?
(a) The tide being high enough to pass over the great reef in the passage.
(b) If his gunpowder can dry quickly enough.
(c) Wind, current, tide and timing.
(d) Whether Cornélie decides to maintain pursuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Passage does his ship run down?

2. What happens a few hours after the dinner ends?

3. What do Martin and Maturin exchange over the next few weeks?

4. For whom does Aubrey host a dinner?

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

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