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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Aubrey the most about failing to gain the treasure?
(a) If it will affect his own career.
(b) He wanted some prize money to purchase a new ship.
(c) Getting paid.
(d) His reputation among his men.

2. 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.

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

4. What happens when Aubrey's ship traps the galley.
(a) Aubrey rams the galley and boards it.
(b) The galley sinks.
(c) It eludes Aubrey a second time.
(d) The galley sets itself on fire.

5. What surprises Maturin about Mr. Fielding?
(a) That he is not the spy.
(b) That he is a traitor.
(c) That he is alive.
(d) Nothing.

6. When does Aubrey set a course for with the Surprise?
(a) Lisbon.
(b) Snata Maura.
(c) The area near Normandy.
(d) The area near Brest.

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

8. What follows after the squalls?
(a) Good breezes though with heavy fog.
(b) Three days of relative calm.
(c) A horrendous cyclone.
(d) A tsunami.

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

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

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

12. What surrounds the men while they are setting up camp?
(a) Millions of scorpions.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Desert lions.
(d) A large group of men.

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

14. To whom does Aubrey report upon his return to Malta?
(a) Admiral Leighton.
(b) Admiral Hartley.
(c) The aide de camp to the Commander-in-Chief.
(d) The Commander-in-Chief.

15. Where is Lesueur when Maturin is sitting in the dark?
(a) Sailing back to Brest.
(b) Sneaking on board the Surprise.
(c) Coming into Mrs. Fielding's home.
(d) Entering the deserted warehouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Maturin tell Mrs. Fielding?

2. Who greets Aubrey and his crew favorably?

3. Why does Maturin meet Mr. Fielding?

4. How does Wray become indebted to Maturin?

5. What does Maturin think about when he learns of the other ship's earlier return?

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