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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens between Davidge and West?
(a) A division.
(b) A discovery.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An agreement to invest together in a farm when they return to England.

2. What is causing contention among the ship's officers?
(a) One of them has accused another of cheating at dice.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) How the prize money is being divided.
(d) One of them has accused another of cheating at cards.

3. In what does Maturin become involved?
(a) A dispute of honor.
(b) A study of the local flora and fauna.
(c) A dispute about medical treatment.
(d) An epidemic.

4. What does Aubrey inspect with Tom?
(a) The galley.
(b) The rigging.
(c) The ropes.
(d) The cable tiers.

5. What do Maturin and Aubrey agree on about Clarissa?
(a) She is strikingly beautiful.
(b) She is no great beauty.
(c) She is rather coarse.
(d) She is rather quiet.

6. How does Aubrey occupy his time when not commanding the ship?
(a) Teaching some of the junior officers.
(b) Playing bridge with Maturin.
(c) Sorting through his estate papers.
(d) Writing his wife long letters.

7. What does Aubrey note among the crew?
(a) Much merriment and amusement.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Despondency.
(d) Hostility.

8. Who is Tom Pullings?
(a) The second mate.
(b) The first mate.
(c) The botswain's mate.
(d) The cook.

9. Who owns the vessel?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Aubrey.
(c) The English naval department.
(d) The Dutch government.

10. In what country does Port Jackson lie?
(a) Mozambique.
(b) Australia.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) The Ottoman Empire.

11. With whom does Aubrey confer in Aubrey's cabin?
(a) Jones.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Oates.
(d) Pullings.

12. What does the Éclair want with the Surprise?
(a) To deliver several new crew members.
(b) To search for stowaways.
(c) To bring a new commander and take Aubrey to his new ship assignment.
(d) To deliver mail and new orders.

13. For what will they use the harpooned creature?
(a) A wedding dinner for Oakes and Clarissa.
(b) To stuff as a trophy on the outer bulkhead.
(c) To sell at the next port for fresh fruit.
(d) Bait to catch more fish.

14. What port do they depart at the opening of the story?
(a) Port au Prince.
(b) Port Jackson.
(c) Haifa.
(d) Luxumborg.

15. What will happen if Oakes marries Clarissa?
(a) He will be a bigamist.
(b) He will have to resign his commission.
(c) There will be professional repercussions for Oakes.
(d) He will have to leave her at the first port call where there are English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who starts visiting Maturin?

2. What does Aubrey find below decks?

3. What do Aubrey and the scout seem to have?

4. Where is Aubrey's vessel headed now?

5. What does the scout report?

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