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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the admiral live?
(a) In an apartment overlooking the bay.
(b) At the end of a long, dry, dirt road.
(c) In a large country estate.
(d) On board his private vessel.

2. Who is Stephen Maturin?
(a) Aubrey's nemesis.
(b) The surgeon aboard the Surprise.
(c) Another Navy Captain.
(d) The surgeon aboard the Leopard.

3. What is the Gulf of Suez?
(a) Where Aubrey is to meet with Mr. Fielding.
(b) Near the Gulf of Tonkien.
(c) Wher Aubrey will rendezvous with the English fleet under Wellington.
(d) Where Aubrey is to take a prize.

4. What is Effendi willing to do?
(a) Supply transport and supplies to Aubrey.
(b) Let Aubrey talk to the Sultan.
(c) Spend the night in Mubara before leaving.
(d) Let Aubrey stay for several weeks in the one hotel for foreigners.

5. What happens to Ponto one night?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He breaks his wrist.
(c) He gets drunk.
(d) He falls down a well.

6. How is the crew that remains as far as their ties to Aubrey?
(a) They are close to mutiny.
(b) The narrator does not mention the crew.
(c) They are fiercely loyal.
(d) They are loyal enough unless they are offered more pay elsewhere.

7. What would Jack like in regards to Mrs. Fielding?
(a) To pay for her monthly expenses.
(b) To help her find her son.
(c) To escort her to England.
(d) To be her suitor.

8. How soon will Aubrey leave Malta?
(a) Immediately.
(b) Within 3 weeks.
(c) As soon as the Surprise is done.
(d) A year.

9. What other talent besides tutoring does Mrs. Fielding possess?
(a) Drawing.
(b) She is a musician.
(c) Painting.
(d) Calligraphy.

10. Who does Graham believe is visiting Malta?
(a) The Duke of Wellington.
(b) A secret agent of the crown.
(c) Lesueur.
(d) Napoleon.

11. What secret occupation does Graham have in common with Maturin?
(a) Forensics.
(b) Journalism.
(c) Working as an intelligence agent.
(d) Pathology.

12. How does Aubrey feel about the fate of the Worcester?
(a) Angry.
(b) Happy.
(c) Resigned.
(d) Sad.

13. What does Ponto do at the shop?
(a) Harms the owner.
(b) Breaks some of the merchandise.
(c) He's an apprentice.
(d) He is buying something.

14. What does Aubrey do that is indiscreet?
(a) Makes a pass at the bar maid in a tavern.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Makes a pass at Mrs. Fielding.
(d) Talks to Leseuer not knowing who he is.

15. Why does Aubrey not hold Maturin's closeness to Mrs. Fielding against Maturin?
(a) Because Aubrey knows Maturin has been lonely and depressed.
(b) Because of Aubrey and Maturin's friendship.
(c) Because Maturin has learned Mr. Fielding is dead and Maturin wants to marry Mrs. Fielding.
(d) Because Aubrey knows Maturin and Mrs. Fielding are not having an affair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aubrey request camels immediately?

2. How does one gain rank in the British navy?

3. What does the Dromedary encounter at sea?

4. Against whom is England fighting during Treason's Harbor?

5. Who helps Ponto?

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