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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin intend to do in Paris?
(a) Learn what he can of his nephew's disappearance.
(b) Lecture at a scientific academy.
(c) Spy.
(d) Deliver diplomatic papers to the embassy.

2. What happens to one of the American schooners that delays their pursuit?
(a) The rudder pinion breaks off.
(b) The main mast breaks.
(c) It hits an iceberg.
(d) There is a mutiny.

3. Where is the HMS Shannon going?
(a) England.
(b) The West Indies.
(c) Chile.
(d) Halifax, Nova Scotia.

4. How does Maturin respond to attempts by Frenchman to use him as a courier?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Intriqued.
(d) Disinterested.

5. What does Maturin find irresistible about Villiers?
(a) Nothing really attracts Maturin to Villiers.
(b) Her eyes.
(c) Her grace.
(d) Her laughter.

6. What does Maturin ask Villiers?
(a) To take a letter to a colleague in England.
(b) To marry him.
(c) To take a letter to a colleague in Brazil.
(d) To keep quiet about his activities in America.

7. Where are the wounded transferred?
(a) They are not transferred.
(b) To a larger ship that has a good infirmary.
(c) To a ship that's headed for England that day.
(d) To a hospital ashore.

8. What does Villiers' diamond necklace feature?
(a) Diamonds stolen from South Africa.
(b) The famous Blue Peter diamond.
(c) Diamonds stolen from a pirate vessel.
(d) The famous Hope diamond.

9. What ship are Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers aboard?
(a) HMS Java.
(b) HMS Elizabeth.
(c) HMS Leopard.
(d) HMS Shannon.

10. What does Maturin advise Aubrey?
(a) To take the second vessel carrying the recovering wounded.
(b) To send his children to boarding school.
(c) To borrow money from his wealthy father-in-law.
(d) To not fret over things he cannot control.

11. What does Maturin do with Villiers?
(a) Finds a friend who is willing to marry her.
(b) Tries to talk her into marrying him.
(c) Marries her.
(d) Arranges for her to stay at the Hôtel de la Mothe.

12. What happens to the crew on that schooner?
(a) They sink with their ship and drown.
(b) They are hung as mutineers.
(c) They save the ship eventually and limp back to Boston.
(d) It is rescued by the other allowing the English packet to escape.

13. What does Aubrey do when he first makes land?
(a) Reunites with Kimber.
(b) Finds out where his surviving children are.
(c) Goes to file his lenthly preliminary report to naval authorities.
(d) Finds out where his wife is buried.

14. About what does Aubrey muse during his and Sophie's reunion?
(a) Death.
(b) Illness.
(c) Clocks.
(d) Children.

15. To whom does Maturin make his report?
(a) Sir Joseph Blaine.
(b) Sir James Blair.
(c) Admiral Nelson.
(d) The Duke of Wellington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What compels Aubrey to find Smith quite attractive?

2. How does Aubrey treat Smith?

3. What does Aubrey desperately want to do?

4. What does Amanda Smith ask of Aubrey?

5. What impresses Smith about Aubrey?

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