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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What infuriates Aubrey about the problems Davidge and West have?
(a) That the two men let them personal lives interfere with their professional lives.
(b) That they both are late getting back to the Surprise.
(c) That they both ignore instructions.
(d) That they should not have tried to repair the main mast with no experience at such things.

2. Why does Clarissa secure a good position when she is put on the streets after Edward's death?
(a) She is a real beauty.
(b) She is well educated.
(c) She has a lot of nice clothes.
(d) She is experienced.

3. What does Clarissa think of Annamooka?
(a) She finds it backward and dirty.
(b) She finds it captivating.
(c) She find the way they treat woman despicable.
(d) She cannot understand the native culture and thus feels uncomfortable.

4. To whom does Maturin write a coded letter?
(a) Sir Joseph Blaine.
(b) Sir William Nelson.
(c) Sir Wallace Birth.
(d) Sir Charles White.

5. What does Reade speak about as he is losing consciousness?
(a) The crew going in and out of Clarissa's room.
(b) Wanting the last rites.
(c) Writing his wife.
(d) His child who died.

6. Who does not appear at breakfast for several days?
(a) Oakes.
(b) Aubrey.
(c) Pullings.
(d) Clarissa.

7. What is brought on board the Surprise?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Chickens.

8. How is the dinner conversation?
(a) Crude.
(b) Lively.
(c) Strained and stilted.
(d) Ambiguous.

9. What is Clarissa's position when she first begins working?
(a) Bookkeeper.
(b) Maid.
(c) Prostitute.
(d) Cook.

10. What does Maturin discover when he goes to see Clarissa?
(a) She has been beaten.
(b) She has scurvy.
(c) She has morningsickness.
(d) She is seasick.

11. What does Aubrey do to the crew after a storm?
(a) Confines them to their quarters.
(b) Presses them to work hard.
(c) Puts them on light duty.
(d) Nothing out of the ordinary.

12. If Aubrey intervenes, what will be the implication?
(a) That he will be bringing the Napoleonic war to the island.
(b) That he cannot leave them unprotected.
(c) That the French must be completely driven off the island.
(d) That Moahu is a de facto British colony.

13. What is the name of her place of work?
(a) Scurry, Abbot and Dodge Solicitors.
(b) Mother Abbot's.
(c) The Red Lantern.
(d) The House of Love.

14. Who is Dutourd?
(a) The captain of the Franklin.
(b) The Commanding officer of the French Foreign Legion stationed in Moahu.
(c) The captain of the Fort overlooking the bay.
(d) The French physician who Maturin befriends.

15. What arises in Chapter 5?
(a) A storm.
(b) A ship-wide wager.
(c) A serious fight among the crew.
(d) A ship-wide illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic do Aubrey and others at times discuss humorously?

2. What do Oakes, West and Davidge demonstrate?

3. Approximately when was Clarissa born?

4. Who are Wray and Ledward?

5. What distracts Maturin from his original purpose in going ashore with Clarissa?

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