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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 do Maturin and Aubrey agree on about Clarissa?
(a) She is rather coarse.
(b) She is rather quiet.
(c) She is no great beauty.
(d) She is strikingly beautiful.

2. To what does the man admit?
(a) Having turned an eye while the men were rolling the whiskey on board.
(b) Having smuggled the contraband aboard himself.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Unofficially knowing of the presence of what Aubrey found below decks.

3. What is Aubrey doing as he is standing on the quarterdeck?
(a) Watching a punishment of 20 lashes being carried out.
(b) Talking to the officer accused of cheating.
(c) Contemplating the previous weeks' events.
(d) Talking to Maturin about what they will do when they reach the West Indies.

4. What is closed?
(a) Norfolk Island.
(b) Easter Island.
(c) The eastern African shore.
(d) Tahiti.

5. What will happen if Oakes marries Clarissa?
(a) He will be a bigamist.
(b) He will have to resign his commission.
(c) There will be professional repercussions for Oakes.
(d) He will have to leave her at the first port call where there are English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is threatening British interests in the area where they are headed?

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

3. What is Maturin's position on board?

4. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?

5. What does the Éclair want with the Surprise?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?

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

4. How does Edward treat Clarissa as she gets older?

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

6. Describe Stephan Maturin.

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

8. Describe the conversation during the wedding dinner.

9. What does Aubrey say about the dinner later that night to Maturin?

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

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