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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Martin accept from Maturin?
(a) A position of shipboard chaplain.
(b) A few pounds to tide him over until he finds a new position.
(c) Being dropped at a missionary settlement near Cape Horn.
(d) A position as clergy.

2. What does Aubrey decide about Oakes and Clarissa?
(a) They will be put in a small boat with provisions.
(b) They will be hanged.
(c) They will be put in the brig in separate cells.
(d) They will not be put ashore at this time.

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

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

5. Who insults Maturin one evening?
(a) Davidge.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Pullings.

6. What is threatening British interests in the area where they are headed?
(a) French influence.
(b) German influence.
(c) American influence.
(d) Dutch influence.

7. What positions do Davidge and West hold on the Surprise?
(a) 2nd and 3rd mates.
(b) 3rd mate and steward.
(c) 1st and 3rd mates.
(d) 2nd mate and steward.

8. What does Aubrey do before breakfast?
(a) Has Oakes lashed.
(b) Goes swimming.
(c) Has Oakes given 20 lashes and Clarrisa Harville given 3 lashes.
(d) Climbs to the monkey's nest.

9. To what does the man admit?
(a) Having smuggled the contraband aboard himself.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Having turned an eye while the men were rolling the whiskey on board.
(d) Unofficially knowing of the presence of what Aubrey found below decks.

10. Who is Clarissa Oakes?
(a) The wife of Maturin's cousin.
(b) A stowaway.
(c) The daughter of the Egyptian consulate.
(d) Aubrey's sister-in-law.

11. What vessel are Aubrey and Maturin sailing?
(a) Surprise.
(b) Shannon.
(c) Java.
(d) Leopold.

12. Who is pursuing the Surprise?
(a) An American man-of-war.
(b) A French man-of-war.
(c) A British cutter.
(d) An American privateer.

13. How does Aubrey react to his discovery?
(a) Indignant.
(b) Confused.
(c) Nonplussed.
(d) Angry.

14. Where has one of the patients that Maturin is examining been?
(a) India.
(b) Norfolk Island.
(c) China.
(d) Tibet.

15. What does Aubrey order regarding pursuit?
(a) To ignore it.
(b) To heave to.
(c) To turn around and ram it.
(d) To shoot a warning shot across the other ship's bow.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what is the crew of the Surprise to intervene?

2. What is Maturin's position on board?

3. What do Maturin and Aubrey agree on about Clarissa?

4. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?

5. What will happen if Oakes marries Clarissa?

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