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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 British interests or laws are being threatened?
(a) The rum import tariff.
(b) The monopoly on coffee.
(c) The slave trade act of 1807.
(d) Fur-trading.

2. What is threatening British interests in the area where they are headed?
(a) French influence.
(b) Dutch influence.
(c) German influence.
(d) American influence.

3. Who is Clarissa Oakes?
(a) A stowaway.
(b) Aubrey's sister-in-law.
(c) The daughter of the Egyptian consulate.
(d) The wife of Maturin's cousin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where has the other patient which Maturin is examining been?

3. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?

4. What does Aubrey find below decks?

5. What does Surprise cross at the opening to Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Clarissa's activities slide into prostitution?

3. How do Aubrey and Maturin pass the next few days while at sea?

4. What would the officers normally do to celebrate a wedding and how do they finally manage to do so?

5. How does the enlisted crew celebrate Oakes' wedding?

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

7. How does Aubrey ready his crew for battle and what is Clarissa's reaction to this?

8. Why does Aubrey push the crew mercilessly?

9. Describe Stephan Maturin.

10. How is Clarissa dressed for the ceremony and who performs the ceremony to marry Oakes and Clarissa?

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