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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps Maturin's physical problems?
(a) Laudenum.
(b) Opium.
(c) Coca leaves.
(d) Quinine.

2. What is the name of the mule upon which Maturin travels out of Callao?
(a) Joselito.
(b) Casilla.
(c) Burroito.
(d) Pedro.

3. What does Aubrey do with the ship they have captured from question #91?
(a) Tows it behind the Franklin.
(b) Sends it away with no terms.
(c) Sent to port to be condemned as a prize.
(d) Takes off the crew and sinks it.

4. What does Maturin do while Surprise and Franklin are in port?
(a) Collects bird specimens.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Goes ashore.
(d) Nurses the injured men.

5. What kind of news does the Englishman give Aubrey?
(a) The Spanish have four battleships in a blockade of Peru.
(b) The Spanish western Amanda is close.
(c) There is a French privateer nearby.
(d) There is an American privateer nearby.

6. How does Maturin travel for three days?
(a) On the back of a yak.
(b) On llama back.
(c) In a travois dragged by alpacas.
(d) In a Peruvian chair.

7. Who is Maturin's guide?
(a) Panda.
(b) Auxley.
(c) No one.
(d) Eduardo.

8. What does Aubrey catch sight of while looking for a prize?
(a) An American battleship.
(b) An American whaler.
(c) A French pirate.
(d) A Spanish galleon.

9. How long has Aubrey been out on the open waters in a small boat?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) Almost a month.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 5 days.

10. What does Pullings feel offended?
(a) By the persistence of some men who are yelling at him.
(b) By the way Aubrey presumes authority over him.
(c) By the things his brother-in-law says about Pullings' sister.
(d) By the way the first mate is too familiar.

11. What happens to Surprise and Franklin as they search for their next prize ship?
(a) They ram the prize ship accidentally.
(b) They run into each other.
(c) Nothing happens to them.
(d) They are separated.

12. Why does Hurtado decide not to participate in the rebellion?
(a) He thinks Maturin is a liar.
(b) He thinks it is funded by intervening foreigners.
(c) He has decided it is not the right time.
(d) He believes it will fail.

13. What makes Pullings pay closer attention to some men in a small boat?
(a) Hearing English profanity.
(b) Seeing a woman among them.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Hearing a friend's name being called.

14. Who is considered a wanted fugitive?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Pullings.
(d) Panda.

15. What nationality is Eduardo?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Peruvian Indian.
(c) Bolivian.
(d) Portuguese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Castro declare as to his intentions concerning the rebellion?

2. How is Martin doing physically by Chapter 6?

3. What happens to Martin when the Surprise comes into port?

4. What do Maturin and Gayongos discuss?

5. What does Pullings do after readying Surprise?

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