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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 note among the crew?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Despondency.
(d) Much merriment and amusement.

2. How does Aubrey react to his discovery?
(a) Nonplussed.
(b) Confused.
(c) Indignant.
(d) Angry.

3. Where is the Surprise ordered?
(a) To the Mediterrean.
(b) To the West Indies.
(c) To Moahu.
(d) To some islands off Cape Horn.

4. What does Maturin hope to do some day?
(a) Study the fauna at the Galapagos.
(b) Visit both places his patients have been.
(c) Have a large enough vessel to sail around the world.
(d) Find a native wife at one of the tropical islands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the scout report?

2. Who starts visiting Maturin?

3. Who does Aubrey send out to scout?

4. What does Maturin start having about Clarissa?

5. Who is Tom Pullings?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are Aubrey and Pullings going below?

3. What do Maturin and Clarissa go ashore to do, but what do they end up doing?

4. Who does Aubrey confer with in his cabin and what is the topic of their discussion?

5. Who captains the Franklin and what is the man's philosophy?

6. How does Clarissa come to be on board the Surprise and what does Aubrey say he is going to do about it?

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

8. What does Aubrey decide to do at Moahu, especially after learning what else about the goings on at the island?

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

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

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