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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 does Aubrey think about life at sea compared to that on land?
(a) It is more exciting.
(b) It is more complicated.
(c) It is simpler.
(d) Being at sea he is his own boss.

2. What is the approximate date at the opening of the novel?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1813.
(d) 1833.

3. What does Aubrey realize?
(a) The dead crew member just signed on at the last port.
(b) That the contraband whiskey must have come aboard at the last port call.
(c) That the ship must not have been thoroughly checked for rats at the last port.
(d) That he has found the source of the crew's apparent high morale.

4. What does Aubrey decide about Oakes and Clarissa?
(a) They will be put in the brig in separate cells.
(b) They will be put in a small boat with provisions.
(c) They will be hanged.
(d) They will not be put ashore at this time.

5. Why had Padeen been at a penal colony?
(a) As the cook.
(b) For serious crimes he committed.
(c) As the warden.
(d) As a guard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crew catch?

2. What is causing contention among the ship's officers?

3. How does Aubrey occupy his time when not commanding the ship?

4. What does Aubrey find below decks?

5. Who insults Maturin one evening?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aubrey treat the crew during the voyage to Moahu?

2. How does Aubrey finally figure out what is wrong with some of his officers and crew and what does he do to handle the situation?

3. What strategy do Maturin and Aubrey agree upon despite what misgivings?

4. About what does Maturin talk to two of his patients in sick bay and what is his response to the conversations?

5. What does Aubrey hope for on his return to England?

6. Why does Aubrey push the crew mercilessly?

7. What do the officers do on the same evening as the crew's celebration, and what do Aubrey and Maturin notice?

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

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

10. What does Clarissa tell Maturin about which he is excited and what does he do?

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