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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin learn when he dives for the treasure?
(a) There is more than enough to make all of them wealthy for the rest of their lives.
(b) They were set up.
(c) The galley is floating just twenty feet below the surface.
(d) The galley sank in a canyon and it's too deep to approach.

2. Who rescues Mr. Fielding?
(a) The captain of the Southhampton.
(b) No one.
(c) Mr. Maitland.
(d) The Nymphe.

3. How is visibility in the squalls?
(a) That is one thing that is excellent.
(b) Poor.
(c) It is amazingly only slightly affected.
(d) They cannot see more than a foot in front of the prow.

4. What ship seems trapped between the Surprise and Dryad?
(a) A French privateer.
(b) An American privateer.
(c) A French merchant vessel.
(d) A French frigate.

5. Why does Mr. Fielding decline passage aboard the Surprise?
(a) He is not offered passage on the Surprise.
(b) He believes Aubrey is having an affair with his wife.
(c) He wants to travel on a faster ship.
(d) He is assigned to the Nymphe.

6. What do Aubrey and his men see as they exit the desert?
(a) A large French force waiting for them.
(b) A huge fire near Niro.
(c) A lake of fresh water.
(d) A view of the Suez.

7. How does Wray become indebted to Maturin?
(a) Maturin saves his leg when it becomes infected.
(b) Maturin loans Wray money to send his wife who is pregnant.
(c) Losing at cards.
(d) Maturin saves his arm when it becomes infected.

8. Where does Maturin go and sit in the dark?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) Mrs. Fielding's home.
(c) In a deserted warehouse.
(d) On board the Dryad.

9. Where is the treacherous sea through which they are sailing?
(a) Near Thyrce.
(b) Near Cape Horn.
(c) Near Ithaca.
(d) Near La Compaigne.

10. What does Wray agree to in order to cancel his debt?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Political favors.
(c) Resigning his commission.
(d) Taking on a dangerous spy mission.

11. What ends after Aubrey and his men are shipboard?
(a) Their luck.
(b) Their good food.
(c) Their good morale.
(d) The sense of purpose.

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

13. What does Aubrey encourage Honey and Maitland to do?
(a) Move to the United States.
(b) Find a new career.
(c) Accompany Maturin on his specimen-gathering expedition.
(d) Take their lieutenant's exam as soon as they return to Malta.

14. Why can the men not find relief from the heat?
(a) The water is too shark infested to swim in.
(b) They do find relief from swimming.
(c) There is no shade.
(d) There is no breeze.

15. How does Maturin use the situation with Mrs. Fielding?
(a) To learn more about Lesueur.
(b) To be less lonely.
(c) To stay close to Mrs. Fielding in case her husband is the traitor and Maturin can catch him.
(d) To feed false intelligence information to the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maturin meet Mr. Fielding?

2. What is the Egyptian Wind?

3. About what does Maturin tell Mrs. Fielding?

4. Upon what criteria are promotions based?

5. Besides his wife, who else has written Maturin?

(see the answer keys)

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