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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey decide to start on the voyage with Surprise?
(a) A new career.
(b) A journal.
(c) A letter-writing campaign.
(d) Midshipmen's training for two of his crew.

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

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

4. How does Aubrey pass the voyage home?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) By writing his official navy report.
(c) Training his men.
(d) Writing his wife.

5. What does Maturin think about when he learns of the other ship's earlier return?
(a) He wonders if there is a traitor on the other ship.
(b) He is concerned for Mrs. Fielding's safety.
(c) He thinks about whether Mr. Fielding is on board.
(d) He wonders if the other ship will register the prize.

6. What does Maturin think could happen if it becomes known what has happened to Mr. Fielding?
(a) Maturin would divorce Diana and marry Mrs. Fielding.
(b) Mrs. Fielding may die of grief.
(c) Maturin would have to take care of Mrs. Fielding financially.
(d) Mrs. Fielding's life may be in danger.

7. What does Maturin observe that pleases him?
(a) A variety of animal and plant life.
(b) The crew's skin getting tougher.
(c) The crew getting into better shape.
(d) The way Aubrey has lost weight.

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

9. What does the wind bring to the ship?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sand.
(c) Smells of rotting fishes.
(d) Smell of smoke.

10. Besides his wife, who else has written Maturin?
(a) Maturin's mother.
(b) Maturin's sister.
(c) Maturin's brother-in-law.
(d) Sir Blaine.

11. Who greets Aubrey and his crew favorably?
(a) Their Turkish hosts.
(b) An English spy posing as a Frenchman.
(c) Mr. Fielding.
(d) Some Dutch fishermen.

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

13. What does Maturin tell Mr. Fielding?
(a) That his wife has been very concerned for him.
(b) That Maturin will take Fielding's information to the admiral in Malta.
(c) That Sir Blaine will want to see Mr. Fielding immediately.
(d) That his wife is dead.

14. Upon what criteria are promotions based?
(a) Social and class standing.
(b) Political connections.
(c) There are no set criteria.
(d) Experience and success.

15. Why are the crew's spirits low?
(a) They are ordered to England.
(b) They are ordered to surrender the Niobe.
(c) Because of losing the treasure.
(d) They are ordered back to Mubara.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maturin use the situation with Mrs. Fielding?

2. What happens when Aubrey's ship traps the galley.

3. Who seems to take to the desert trek?

4. With whom does the Surprise sail parallel?

5. Of what does Dundas complain?

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