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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 Dumesnil tell Aubrey about the Cornelie?
(a) It is faster than the Diane.
(b) It has been seized by the Sultan.
(c) It is careened and needs repairs.
(d) It is there for smuggling against the Sultan.

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

3. Where does Diane arrive at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Padoloudo.
(b) Greaves.
(c) Newington.
(d) Batavia.

4. What does Maturin tell Aubrey about the riot?
(a) A suggestion of his was the impetus.
(b) It happens all the time in Pulo Prabang.
(c) He will get an appointment with the vizier to find out what happened.
(d) He needs to get all the British aboard ship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What offer to the French has the Sultan officially rejected?

2. At what function does the British delegation act in grossly flattering ways?

3. How many midshipmen does Diane have?

4. What does the delegation find out about the French at the beginning of Chapter 6?

5. Why was it critical when the wind died near Inaccessible Island?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind and number of midshipmen does the Diane have and how does Aubrey handle them?

2. What kind of news about the French delegation does Raffles tell Aubrey?

3. Describe, briefly, the Diane.

4. What does Aubrey do with the midshipmen when he allows prostitutes aboard Diane and what do those midshipmen do?

5. How is Abjul executed?

6. What kind of daily observations does Aubrey take and why does he take them?

7. How does van Buren assist Maturin?

8. What class do the midshipmen find boring and what do they do about it?

9. Who is Van Buren and why does Maturin seek him out in Pulo Prabang?

10. What does Maturin enjoy at the locale where he spends his leave time?

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