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

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

3. How is Martin doing physically by Chapter 6?
(a) He is in for a long recuperation.
(b) He will not recover.
(c) He is completely healed.
(d) He should be well within another week.

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

5. What happens to Martin when the Surprise comes into port?
(a) Nothing happens to him.
(b) He stays in South America.
(c) He stays on the ship.
(d) He is put on a ship bound for England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin request of Aubrey in port?

2. Who hails Pullings?

3. Why does Hurtado decide not to participate in the rebellion?

4. Why has Aubrey arrived?

5. What does Pullings do after readying Surprise?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Edward Shelton and why is he aboard the American whaler?

2. What does Shelton volunteer for and what does he tell Aubrey?

3. What does Aubrey attempt to do to correct what he found out about Dutourd?

4. With whom does Maturin meet and why?

5. What happens to Aubrey as they take the French ship?

6. What is done at the meeting for the rebellion?

7. Why does Aubrey go out to sea in Franklin, what does he encounter and what does he discover?

8. What side trip do Maturin and Eduardo take and what happens after they leave there?

9. What happens when Surprise reaches port at Callao? What does Maturin do?

10. Where has Maturin been sent after the collapse of the rebellion?

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