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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Martin avoided Clarissa?
(a) He feels too much lust for her.
(b) He promises Oakes he would not talk with her.
(c) He does not trust her.
(d) He does not like her.

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

3. Who rules the north end of Moahu?
(a) Kalahua.
(b) The Dutch.
(c) The English.
(d) The French.

4. Upon whose behalf do Maturin and Aubrey think they must intervene?
(a) Puolani.
(b) Dutourd.
(c) Kalahua.
(d) Maliwau.

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

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

7. What does Clarissa relate in a monotone?
(a) A poem she wrote.
(b) A recipe for keeping the bugs off a person.
(c) The initiation rites of a group to which she used to belong.
(d) Her life's story.

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

9. What is Maturin excited to learn?
(a) That Clarissa knows several men who are Maturin's friends.
(b) That Clarissa has changed since her life in England.
(c) That Surprise is sailing on the morning tide.
(d) That Clarissa knows the identity of Wray and Ledward's high-ranking accomplice.

10. What does Aubrey realize about his crew?
(a) That they do not seem to enjoy the sailing as much as usual.
(b) That they are still in a giddy mood.
(c) That something is seriously amiss.
(d) That they hav begun to slip in their duties.

11. How has Clarissa modified her wedding dress?
(a) She does not change anything since it's her wedding feast.
(b) She has made it a bit more of a bold cut.
(c) Into an evening gown.
(d) She has made it larger to fit her growing stomach.

12. What is taking up Aubrey's time in Annamooka?
(a) Planning a way to get around the French blockade.
(b) Supervising the retrofitting of the Surprise with some 32 pounders.
(c) Writing letters with instructions to his lawyer and accountant.
(d) Formal dinners.

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

14. For what reason do Clarissa and Maturin go ashore together?
(a) To replenish medical supplies.
(b) To seek a medical shaman.
(c) To study the local flora and fauna.
(d) To seek a herbalogist.

15. What does the Surprise do?
(a) Loads rovisions and water.
(b) Gets painted black.
(c) Adds a second topsail for speed.
(d) Gets five new 48 pounders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of reception does the Surprise receive?

2. What does Reade do?

3. Who rules the South end of Moahu?

4. Why is Surprise put into tip-top shape?

5. Where does Clarissa meet William Oakes?

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