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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey learn about Moahu from a local sailor?
(a) It is rampant with malaria.
(b) Much information.
(c) It is friendly to the French.
(d) It has armed its people.

2. Who is crewing the Franklin?
(a) Frenchmen.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Americans.
(d) English.

3. With whom does Aubrey discuss the situation at Moahu?
(a) Mobilia.
(b) Maturin.
(c) The Governor.
(d) Kalahua.

4. To what is Clarissa's sentence of death commuted?
(a) Transportation.
(b) A pardon when her innocence is proven.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Life in prison.

5. What position does Clarissa eventually add on to her first job?
(a) Cook.
(b) Maid.
(c) Prostitute.
(d) Bookkeeper.

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

7. Why was Clarissa sent to live with a guardian?
(a) She wants to go to a school near his house.
(b) She is not sure.
(c) She is unmanageable.
(d) She is orphaned young.

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

9. How does narration characterize the wedding dinner?
(a) Not a complete catastrophe.
(b) An evening of alternating rancor and delight.
(c) An absolute catastrophe.
(d) A wonderfully entertaining evening.

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

11. What do Oakes, West and Davidge demonstrate?
(a) That they wish to not be there.
(b) That they are happy.
(c) That they are confused.
(d) That they are upset.

12. What sort of reception does the Surprise receive?
(a) Wildly enthusiastic.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Mixed.

13. What do Aubrey and Maturin both note as Oakes and Clarissa enter the officer's mess?
(a) Nothing amiss.
(b) The way the cook eyes Clarissa.
(c) The hate in Davidge's eyes.
(d) An odd feeling.

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

15. What does Aubrey plan while at Annamooka?
(a) How to recapture the Trulove.
(b) Ways to drive the French off the island.
(c) How to recall the Trulove to help in ridding the island of the French.
(d) How to best keep the Southern part of the island friendly to the English.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Aubrey transfer care of the livestock in question?

2. How is Dutourd characterized?

3. What does Clarissa relate in a monotone?

4. What infuriates Aubrey about the problems Davidge and West have?

5. Who are two people Maturin and Clarissa talk about?

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