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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the primary reason Maturin contacts Van Buren?
(a) To meet his wife.
(b) To enlist him on the side of the English delegation.
(c) To ask him about brain surgery.
(d) To see his circulatory charts.

2. Why did Fox see much of Maturin?
(a) He was an amateur naturalist.
(b) He liked Maturin.
(c) He was interested in medicine.
(d) He was a hypochondriac.

3. What does Abdul demand from Fox?
(a) An apology.
(b) He demands Fox stay on the ship.
(c) That Fox have sex with him.
(d) A present.

4. What offer to the French has the Sultan officially rejected?
(a) Offer of safe conduct.
(b) Offer to allow a French embassy.
(c) Offer to hear a presentation.
(d) Offer to align with the French.

5. What does Fox quote to Maturin one night?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Ship's regulations.
(c) The lines of the treaty.
(d) A line of poetry.

6. What is the crew like on the Diane?
(a) Disciplined but new.
(b) Sloppy and undisciplined.
(c) Experienced.
(d) Well intergrated.

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

8. How is Abdul executed?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Peppering.
(c) Quartered with horses.
(d) Shot by firing squad.

9. What does Maturin see as the reason for the Sultan's hesitancy towards the English?
(a) The Sultan is interested in one of the French delegation members.
(b) The Sultan's wife despises Fox.
(c) Ledward's influence over the cup-bearer.
(d) The Sultan's wife is sleeping with Wray.

10. What does Aubrey do daily concerning the ocean's waters?
(a) Charting the currents.
(b) Charting the various color zones.
(c) Taking daily temperature readings.
(d) Taking daily saline readings.

11. Why does Fox enlist a group of British diplomats to accompany him to Pulo Prabang?
(a) All of them want to go.
(b) For safety.
(c) To over match the French in numbers.
(d) He's not sure which expert he will need.

12. What type of work for the Dutch does Van Buren do?
(a) Diplomat.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Queen's physician.
(d) None.

13. What does Aubrey decide to do to show off Diane?
(a) Paint the Diane with the Sultan's colors.
(b) Fly the Sultan's colors.
(c) Have a cannonade of floating targets to use the guns on.
(d) Have a race with the French ship.

14. How did Aubrey and Fox feel towards each other?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Restrained dislike.
(c) Enthusiastic respect.
(d) Indifferent.

15. Why was it critical when the wind died near Inaccessible Island?
(a) Diane was in a current that moved towards the island.
(b) Diane was caught in the coral reefs.
(c) Diane was being chased by a ship from the island.
(d) Diane was driven away from the island.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aubrey work the crew?

2. What kind of response does Diane have to sailing?

3. What do both delegations do after several days of preparation?

4. Where does Maturin find the youngest midshipmen and in what condition?

5. How does Aubrey feel about the crew of the Diane?

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