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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of port, politically, is Pulo Prabang?
(a) Aligned with South America.
(b) Neutral.
(c) Aligned with Russia.
(d) Neutral but loosely associated with Egypt.

2. Why is the Inaccessible Island given that name?
(a) The type of people who live there.
(b) The bogs along the shore.
(c) The sheer cliffs that rise out of the water.
(d) The huge coral reef that surrounds it.

3. About what subject are the diplomats ignorant?
(a) Eating habits on ship.
(b) Maritime practice and precedent.
(c) Military traditions on land.
(d) How to travel inconspicuously.

4. Why does Maturin bring the bodies in question #149 to Van Buren?
(a) To bury them.
(b) To show him the effects of peppering.
(c) To dissect them.
(d) To look at a possible new disease.

5. How does Aubrey find the group of diplomats?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Irritating in an ambiguous way.
(c) Willing to learn about the ship.
(d) Ignorant but enthusiastic.

6. How does Fox act towards Maturin after the affair in question #154?
(a) With great delight.
(b) With arrogance and hostility.
(c) Angry and belittling.
(d) With overly friendly conversation.

7. For what type of research is Van Buren known?
(a) His work on whales and dolphins.
(b) His work on the circulatory system in mammals.
(c) His work on mammalian spleens.
(d) His work on human brains.

8. What is the trail to the monastery called by the locals?
(a) The 1,000 steps.
(b) The stairs to heaven.
(c) The ladder of enlightenment.
(d) The path of the soul.

9. What has caused the riot in Pulo Prabang that is happening when Maturin returns from the monastery?
(a) The Sultan's wife has caught the Sultan's catamite with Ledward and Wray.
(b) The Sultan's wife was kidnapped.
(c) The Sultan's oldest son was kidnapped.
(d) The Sultan's wife lost her baby.

10. For what is Van Buren widely esteemed?
(a) As a diplomat.
(b) As a firey orator.
(c) As a preeminent surgeon.
(d) As a natural philosopher.

11. Where does Diane head after leaving Pulo Prabang?
(a) Batavia.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Spain.
(d) Ireland.

12. What charts does Aubrey hope to improve?
(a) Those given to him by the Admirality.
(b) Those drawn up by the East Indies Trade Company.
(c) Those produced by Alexander von Humboldt.
(d) Those he obtained from the Hudson Bay Company.

13. How does the crew of the Diane feel about Maturin staying ashore in a bawdy-house?
(a) Amused.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Angry.
(d) Chagrined.

14. How does Aubrey feel about the crew of the Diane?
(a) Satisfied.
(b) Very pleased.
(c) Dismayed.
(d) Indifferent.

15. How many guns does Diane have?
(a) 44.
(b) 40.
(c) 27.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Aubrey occasionally allow to come aboard the Diane?

2. How is Diane taken out of her predicament with the wind dying?

3. How much variation is there on the Diane as the sailing days continue?

4. What type of work for the Dutch does Van Buren do?

5. How did Maturin find Fox?

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