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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 helps Aubrey get a good night's sleep?
(a) The brisk salt air.
(b) Laudanum.
(c) A couple shots of the contraband whiskey.
(d) Re-reading a letter from his wife.

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

3. How does narration characterize their mission?
(a) It has not yet been completed.
(b) An abject failure.
(c) Successful.
(d) Partly successful, but they fail to fulfill one aspect of the mission.

4. What are Aubrey and Maturin doing as they sail?
(a) Discussing the war.
(b) Reading their letters from home.
(c) Playing whist.
(d) Playing chess.

5. Who does Aubrey send out to scout?
(a) Bonden.
(b) Oakes.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Pullings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey do before breakfast?

2. Why can they not visit the island that Maturin had hoped to see?

3. What is Maturin's position on board?

4. What does the Éclair want with the Surprise?

5. In what country does Port Jackson lie?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Upon what mission does Aubrey send Davidge and some other crew and how does Davidge perform?

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

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

5. Describe William Oakes.

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

7. What else does Maturin do during the voyage to Moahu?

8. What does Oakes tell Aubrey and what is Clarissa's response?

9. What happens after the victory by Aubrey's men and Puloani?

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

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