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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 Villiers confide to Maturin?
(a) That she left all her money in the hotel in Boston in her haste to leave.
(b) That she loves him.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That she is actually already married to Harry Johnson.

2. What is spreading like wildfire in the town where Shannon is docking?
(a) News of the HMS Shannon's victory.
(b) The flu.
(c) The plague.
(d) News of the end of the war.

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

4. What does Maturin obtain for Villiers?
(a) A certificate of safe passage.
(b) A room at a lady's boarding house.
(c) A maid servant.
(d) An engagement ring.

5. What does Captain Broke need to do?
(a) Supervise the repairs of the Shannon.
(b) Join a blockade of the New York harbor.
(c) Write his official communiqué.
(d) Return to the blockage of Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin ask his fellow physicians?

2. What ship are Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers aboard?

3. What does Maturin find irresistible about Villiers?

4. What do Villiers and Maturin deduce about the pursuit by the two schooners?

5. Who joins Aubrey at his home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Aubrey particularly unhappy ashore?

2. What depresses Aubrey amidst all the celebrations?

3. What is the situation with Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers at the opening of THE SURGEON'S MATE?

4. What did the British intelligence want Maturin to do and why do they no longer need him for the assignment?

5. Describe Sophie Aubrey.

6. How does Smith behave during this waiting period and what is Aubrey's response?

7. What is the first thing Aubrey does upon arriving back in England?

8. How do Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers each act once aboard the Diligence?

9. Why are Maturin, Aubrey and Villiers anxiously awaiting Captain Broke's recovery?

10. What does Villiers confide in Maturin and how does he respond?

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