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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What sort of reception does the Surprise receive?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Wildly enthusiastic.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Mixed.
2. What is brought on board the Surprise?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Pigs.
3. To what does Edward's problem eventually lead?
(a) He eventually kills someone during a violent episode and is hanged.
(b) Allowing creditors sexual favors with his two young female charges.
(c) A horrible death.
(d) He is confined in an asylum for the mentally ill.
4. Upon whose behalf do Maturin and Aubrey think they must intervene?
(a) Maliwau.
(b) Puolani.
(c) Dutourd.
(d) Kalahua.
5. How does Aubrey continue to spend his time?
(a) In sorting through his voluminous estate papers.
(b) In re-designing the rigging.
(c) In playing whist and bridge with Maturin.
(d) In teaching more intricate sea manuevers.
6. What does Maturin discover when he goes to see Clarissa?
(a) She has morningsickness.
(b) She has scurvy.
(c) She has been beaten.
(d) She is seasick.
7. What does Clarissa relate in a monotone?
(a) The initiation rites of a group to which she used to belong.
(b) Her life's story.
(c) A recipe for keeping the bugs off a person.
(d) A poem she wrote.
8. What does Clarissa elicit from the men?
(a) Stories of sea experiences.
(b) The promise that they will protect her with their lives.
(c) Hostile comments.
(d) A promise to be joint godfather to her and Oakes' child.
9. What outrages Sarah and Emily?
(a) That they have to wear clothes on the island.
(b) That the butcher refuses to properly feed the animals brought on board.
(c) That Aubrey is contemplating leaving them in the care of the local missionaries.
(d) That Clarissa gets to go ashore but they do not.
10. How has Clarissa modified her wedding dress?
(a) She has made it larger to fit her growing stomach.
(b) She does not change anything since it's her wedding feast.
(c) Into an evening gown.
(d) She has made it a bit more of a bold cut.
11. Who drinks himself under the table?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) The first mate.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Midshipman Reade.
12. What does Reade speak about as he is losing consciousness?
(a) The crew going in and out of Clarissa's room.
(b) His child who died.
(c) Writing his wife.
(d) Wanting the last rites.
13. What infuriates Aubrey about the problems Davidge and West have?
(a) That they both are late getting back to the Surprise.
(b) That the two men let them personal lives interfere with their professional lives.
(c) That they both ignore instructions.
(d) That they should not have tried to repair the main mast with no experience at such things.
14. To whom does Maturin write a coded letter?
(a) Sir William Nelson.
(b) Sir Charles White.
(c) Sir Joseph Blaine.
(d) Sir Wallace Birth.
15. What is Maturin excited to learn?
(a) That Clarissa knows the identity of Wray and Ledward's high-ranking accomplice.
(b) That Clarissa knows several men who are Maturin's friends.
(c) That Surprise is sailing on the morning tide.
(d) That Clarissa has changed since her life in England.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Aubrey try to solve the problem some of the officers are having?
2. Approximately when was Clarissa born?
3. What is wrong with the duke who is mentioned by Clarissa?
4. What do Aubrey and Maturin both note as Oakes and Clarissa enter the officer's mess?
5. Who are Wray and Ledward?
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