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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Maturin and Gayongos discuss?
(a) A wide variety of options.
(b) Who needs to be assassinated.
(c) Where the best farms are located.
(d) Which letters should be sent out.

2. How does Surprise steer her way to the Franklin?
(a) Following the signal lamps.
(b) Listening to the booming of guns.
(c) Seeing the fire on the prize ship.
(d) Listening for the fog horns.

3. What does Pullings do after readying Surprise?
(a) Goes to visit an old shipmate.
(b) Rows from the shore to the boat.
(c) Goes to sleep in the inn.
(d) Gets into a fight with a woman.

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

5. What happens to Aubrey during the taking of the prize ship?
(a) He cracks two ribs and cuts his arm.
(b) He is shot in the head and stabbed in the thigh.
(c) He is shot in the foot.
(d) He breaks his leg.

6. At what port does Surprise and her prizes stop in Chapter 6?
(a) Los Hagesles.
(b) San Paulos.
(c) Calllao.
(d) Lima.

7. What does Maturin's group detour to see?
(a) A rare species of indigent deerlike creatures.
(b) A tribe heretofore never known about.
(c) An alpine lake.
(d) A new species of gorilla.

8. Why has Aubrey arrived?
(a) It was the closest place to where his ship sank.
(b) To take command of the Noventa.
(c) To assume port duty officer.
(d) To warn Maturin.

9. What did Vidal get while Aubrey was convalescing which made him a problem later?
(a) Several pistols and ammunition.
(b) Friendly relationships with many of the crew.
(c) The idea of mutiny.
(d) An unusual degree of authority and latitude.

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

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

12. What flag does Franklin fly when approaching the ship from question #91?
(a) Peruvian.
(b) Spanish.
(c) British.
(d) American.

13. What does Castro declare as to his intentions concerning the rebellion?
(a) He is completely on the side of rebellion.
(b) He is indifferent to the rebellion.
(c) He will side with whomever appears to be winning.
(d) He is dead set against rebelling.

14. What does Maturin request of Aubrey in port?
(a) That Aubrey come with him.
(b) That Maturin be left for exactly three days.
(c) That Aubrey take Surprise out of the harbor.
(d) That Dutourd not be allowed off the ship.

15. What does Pullings do when he encounters the next prize ship?
(a) Waits for Surprise.
(b) Rams the ship in the bow.
(c) Engages in a vicious boarding action.
(d) Sets the ship on fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the mule upon which Maturin travels out of Callao?

2. What does Pullings report to Aubrey?

3. What does Pullings feel offended?

4. How does General Hurtado feel about independence?

5. What is the end result for Maturin at the meeting?

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