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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does the Surprise put in?
(a) Java.
(b) Easter Island.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Annamooka.
2. What is the name of her place of work?
(a) The Red Lantern.
(b) Scurry, Abbot and Dodge Solicitors.
(c) The House of Love.
(d) Mother Abbot's.
3. How is the dinner conversation?
(a) Lively.
(b) Ambiguous.
(c) Strained and stilted.
(d) Crude.
4. What does Aubrey do to the crew after a storm?
(a) Presses them to work hard.
(b) Puts them on light duty.
(c) Confines them to their quarters.
(d) Nothing out of the ordinary.
5. What infuriates Aubrey about the problems Davidge and West have?
(a) That they should not have tried to repair the main mast with no experience at such things.
(b) That the two men let them personal lives interfere with their professional lives.
(c) That they both ignore instructions.
(d) That they both are late getting back to the Surprise.
6. What is Maturin excited to learn?
(a) That Surprise is sailing on the morning tide.
(b) That Clarissa has changed since her life in England.
(c) That Clarissa knows the identity of Wray and Ledward's high-ranking accomplice.
(d) That Clarissa knows several men who are Maturin's friends.
7. About what does Aubrey fume?
(a) That Clarissa seems to be intent on seducing Aubrey.
(b) That the French have been patrolling heavily on their route.
(c) The poor showing of his officers.
(d) The time it's taking to get to their next assignment.
8. What does the Surprise do?
(a) Gets painted black.
(b) Gets five new 48 pounders.
(c) Loads rovisions and water.
(d) Adds a second topsail for speed.
9. Who rules the north end of Moahu?
(a) The English.
(b) The French.
(c) The Dutch.
(d) Kalahua.
10. How does Aubrey try to solve the problem some of the officers are having?
(a) 10 lashes.
(b) Working them to exhaustion.
(c) A tongue lashing.
(d) A reprimand.
11. What arises in Chapter 5?
(a) A ship-wide illness.
(b) A serious fight among the crew.
(c) A ship-wide wager.
(d) A storm.
12. How does Aubrey continue to spend his time?
(a) In sorting through his voluminous estate papers.
(b) In teaching more intricate sea manuevers.
(c) In re-designing the rigging.
(d) In playing whist and bridge with Maturin.
13. What outrages Sarah and Emily?
(a) That Clarissa gets to go ashore but they do not.
(b) That the butcher refuses to properly feed the animals brought on board.
(c) That they have to wear clothes on the island.
(d) That Aubrey is contemplating leaving them in the care of the local missionaries.
14. Who speaks freely?
(a) Only Aubrey.
(b) Aubrey and Clarissa.
(c) Only Clarissa.
(d) Maturin.
15. To what does Edward's problem eventually lead?
(a) Allowing creditors sexual favors with his two young female charges.
(b) He eventually kills someone during a violent episode and is hanged.
(c) He is confined in an asylum for the mentally ill.
(d) A horrible death.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Mr. Caley?
2. What do the officers hold for Oakes and Clarissa?
3. Who cries out in admiration for Guy Fawkes?
4. What does Aubrey learn about Moahu from a local sailor?
5. What does Clarissa elicit from the men?
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