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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is causing contention among the ship's officers?
(a) One of them has accused another of cheating at dice.
(b) One of them has accused another of cheating at cards.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) How the prize money is being divided.

2. Who starts visiting Maturin?
(a) Davidge.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Oakes.
(d) Pullings.

3. What does Martin accept from Maturin?
(a) A few pounds to tide him over until he finds a new position.
(b) Being dropped at a missionary settlement near Cape Horn.
(c) A position of shipboard chaplain.
(d) A position as clergy.

4. What does Maturin continue to write about Clarissa?
(a) That he cannot believe she killed someone.
(b) That she reminds him of his sister.
(c) That she is no great beauty.
(d) That she is hiding something.

5. What happens between Davidge and West?
(a) Nothing.
(b) An agreement to invest together in a farm when they return to England.
(c) A discovery.
(d) A division.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Maturin become involved?

2. What is the approximate date at the opening of the novel?

3. What are Aubrey and Maturin doing as they sail?

4. To whom does Aubrey give his word that there are no stowaways on board?

5. What does the Éclair want with the Surprise?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Aubrey and the crew do to Surprise every morning and why?

2. What does Aubrey discover when he and Pullings are below and what is Aubrey's response?

3. Describe William Oakes.

4. What does Bonden report and what is Aubrey's decision?

5. Describe Captain Aubrey.

6. What do Maturin and Clarissa do during the voyage to Moahu?

7. What is the story behind Aubrey captaining the Surprise?

8. Why does Aubrey send Bonden to scout the shore of Norfolk Island?

9. What are Surprises orders?

10. How does Clarissa end up at a penal colony in Australia?

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