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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to the Surprise?
(a) It is being fitted as a frigate.
(b) It is being sold out of service.
(c) It is being returned to service with Pullings as captain.
(d) It is deemed damaged beyond repair and is going to be sunk.

2. What does the Admiral give Aubrey after returning from the failed attempt?
(a) An offer of retirement.
(b) A desk job.
(c) A reprimand.
(d) A new assignment.

3. About what does Maturin tell Mrs. Fielding?
(a) Of the fact that Aubrey is in love with her.
(b) Of the danger she is in.
(c) Of witnessing someone killing Ponto.
(d) Of verifying her husband's death.

4. Why does the boat not make good progress up the Gulf of Suez?
(a) Unfavorable winds.
(b) No wind.
(c) Poor seamanship.
(d) Bad rainstorms.

5. What are the average daily temperatures while at sea?
(a) 70.
(b) 90.
(c) 125.
(d) 80.

6. Who is Major Pollock?
(a) The Admiral's aide de camp.
(b) A man whose brother is given command of the Blackwater.
(c) An Army major who is retiring from the service.
(d) A spy for France.

7. Who accompanies the Surprise on its new assignment?
(a) The Shannon.
(b) The Essex.
(c) The Leopard.
(d) The Dryad.

8. What is the most disturbing part of not obtaining the treasure?
(a) The Admiral has no funds now to pay the men.
(b) The real treasure galley got away.
(c) The French has financing for more ships.
(d) That it implies ineptness in British intelligence or a traitor in intelligence.

9. What does the First Secretary promise Aubrey?
(a) Command of the Blackwater.
(b) Command of the Essex.
(c) Command of the Shannon.
(d) Command of the Leopard.

10. What happens to the Dryad?
(a) It is sunk.
(b) It is captured.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It is attacked.

11. What happens to Mr. Hairabedian?
(a) He is hung for murder.
(b) Aubrey refuses to set him ashore and he kills himself.
(c) He gets addicted to the opium.
(d) He is killed by sharks.

12. With what ship do the Surprise and Dryad cross paths?
(a) The Wellington.
(b) The Edinburgh.
(c) The Leopard.
(d) The Elizabeth.

13. What ship do they find?
(a) A Dutch frigate.
(b) An Egyptian freighter.
(c) The Dromedary.
(d) The Leopard.

14. What does Aubrey want for Honey and Maitland?
(a) A decent chance for finding new employment.
(b) Leniency in their court martials.
(c) A way to get them assigned to his ship.
(d) Nothing; he dislikes both men intensely.

15. Who makes port at Malta before the Surprise?
(a) The Essex.
(b) The Dryad.
(c) The Wellington.
(d) The Bounty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who personally tutors Honey and Maitland?

2. Of what does Dundas complain?

3. Why does Mr. Fielding decline passage aboard the Surprise?

4. Where is Lesueur when Maturin is sitting in the dark?

5. Why do Maturin and Aubrey want to return to Malta as quickly as possible?

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