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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 position as clergy.
(c) A few pounds to tide him over until he finds a new position.
(d) Being dropped at a missionary settlement near Cape Horn.

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

3. For what does the Surprise ready?
(a) Its first at-sea inspection by the captain.
(b) An encounter with a hurricane.
(c) An encounter with a French war brig.
(d) An encounter with the 2nd Naval Fleet under Admiral Leighton.

4. To whom does Aubrey give his word that there are no stowaways on board?
(a) The military police.
(b) The governor.
(c) The navy admiral stationed in Port Jackson.
(d) The sheriff.

5. Who starts visiting Maturin?
(a) Oakes.
(b) Pullings.
(c) Davidge.
(d) Clarissa.

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

7. What does Aubrey realize?
(a) The dead crew member just signed on at the last port.
(b) That he has found the source of the crew's apparent high morale.
(c) That the contraband whiskey must have come aboard at the last port call.
(d) That the ship must not have been thoroughly checked for rats at the last port.

8. What do Aubrey and the scout seem to have?
(a) A barely-concealed animosity.
(b) A private understanding.
(c) Similar ways of doing things.
(d) A good friendship.

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

10. What does Maturin hope to do some day?
(a) Visit both places his patients have been.
(b) Study the fauna at the Galapagos.
(c) Find a native wife at one of the tropical islands.
(d) Have a large enough vessel to sail around the world.

11. What is the approximate date at the opening of the novel?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1813.

12. What is Aubrey doing as he is standing on the quarterdeck?
(a) Contemplating the previous weeks' events.
(b) Watching a punishment of 20 lashes being carried out.
(c) Talking to the officer accused of cheating.
(d) Talking to Maturin about what they will do when they reach the West Indies.

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

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

15. What is Aubrey intending to do?
(a) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Easter Island.
(b) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Norfolk Island.
(c) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on the Eastern coast of Africa.
(d) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Tahiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey anticipate when he goes back to England?

2. To what does the man admit?

3. In what does Maturin become involved?

4. What is closed?

5. Who smuggles Clarissa on board?

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