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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the First Lieutenant on the Bellona?
(a) Mr. Harding.
(b) Mr. Whewell.
(c) Mr. Geoghegan.
(d) Mr. Callaghan.

2. What is the name of Jack Aubrey's wife?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Diana.
(d) Brigid.

3. Who scores a knockout in the boxing fight in Chapter 3?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Bonden.
(c) Dundas.
(d) Evans.

4. Who do Jack and Stephen meet who tells Jack that he has to take the carriage to Wooton in Chapter 3?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Brigid.
(d) Clarissa.

5. Who is Jack Aubrey's coxswain?
(a) Preserved Killick.
(b) Mr Callaghan.
(c) Stephen Maturin.
(d) Barret Bonden.

6. How many days have the ships been at sea in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

7. Stephen Maturin is a member of what society?
(a) Society of Engineers.
(b) Society of Commoners.
(c) Sailing Society.
(d) Royal Society.

8. What do Jack and the other officers discuss over dinner in Chapter 5?
(a) Women.
(b) Other battles.
(c) Ships.
(d) The ocean.

9. What sport do Jack and Stephen engage in in Chapter 2?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Fencing.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Polo.

10. Stephen Maturin is an adviser on what affairs?
(a) Irish.
(b) Italian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Greek.

11. Stephen inspects whose wounds from the boxing match aboard the ship in Chapter 4?
(a) Aubrey's.
(b) Colman's.
(c) Bonden's.
(d) Diana's.

12. What refers to the act of appropriating land, especially common land, by putting a hedge or other barrier around it?
(a) Grabbing.
(b) Forclosing.
(c) Siezure.
(d) Inclosure.

13. The two fighters in the boxing match in Chapter 3 are Bonden and who?
(a) Reade.
(b) Evans.
(c) Colman.
(d) Calvert.

14. A letter arrives for whom in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Stephen Maturin.
(b) Jack Aubre.
(c) Captain Dundas.
(d) Mr Callaghan.

15. How many children does Jack Aubrey have?
(a) 0.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the fight in Chapter 3 held?

2. The man who gives Jack and Stephen directions for an inn in Chapter 4 claims to recognize Stephen from where?

3. Who is the head of Intelligence at the Admiralty?

4. Who is the schoolmaster on the Bellona?

5. The Yellow Admiral is set in what century?

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