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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 is happening between Martin and Maturin?
(a) They are having minor difficulties with each other.
(b) They have become lovers.
(c) They have become sworn enemies.
(d) Nothing is happening between them.

2. What surprises Dutourd about Aubrey's review of his documents?
(a) That Aubrey is planning to take half of Franklin's hold.
(b) That he has a sudden loss of prosperity.
(c) That he is being held as a pirate.
(d) That Aubrey considers the Franklin a prize.

3. What injures some crew members at the end of Chapter 1?`
(a) A wave that fell on the deck.
(b) Cannon shot from Franklin.
(c) A loose spar sail.
(d) Peculiar mortar fire.

4. How does Franklin compare to Surprise in size?
(a) It is larger but lighter.
(b) It is larger and heavier.
(c) It is smaller but very heavy due to its guns.
(d) It is smaller and lighter.

5. Why does Maturin write the letter in question #59?
(a) So Martin's wife will write to him.
(b) It helps him think.
(c) He uses them as a diary of sorts.
(d) He wants his concerns on record in case somenthing happens to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who good is Aubrey at predicting Franklin's movements?

2. What kind of plant does Maturin wish to obtain a stock for himself?

3. How long does it take for West to recover from his injury?

4. What is the worst situation on Franklin?

5. What type of injury does West receive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How have the crew fared during the event at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. What is happening to the ocean and the winds by the end of Chapter 1 and what does Aubrey think of it?

3. What does Aubrey demand of Dutourd about Franklin and how does the crew of the Surprise feel about it?

4. What kind of region has Surprise sail into in Chapter 2 and what has happened in that region?

5. What type of mix is Surprise's crew and for what are some of the older members known?

6. How does Reade accidentally slow down the Surprise?

7. Why has Dutourd commissioned the Franklin and what does he plan to do?

8. How do the various religious groups on Surprise get along both on the ship and ashore?

9. How did Clarissa affect the crew of the Surprise?

10. What is Maturin's personal reason for going to Peru?

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