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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Dr. Maturin and Mr. Martin explore the waters off the side of the ship?
(a) In a diving bell.
(b) They cannot because there are too many sharks.
(c) By pulling up barrels of water.
(d) With a periscope.

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

3. 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 is assigned to the Nymphe.
(d) He wants to travel on a faster ship.

4. What does Aubrey hand deliver to Maturin in the morning?
(a) Written orders.
(b) Letters from England.
(c) A new medical bag.
(d) A new diving bell.

5. What causes the crew discomfort?
(a) Bad water.
(b) The constant sand-laden winds.
(c) The lack of privacy on such a small ship.
(d) Sunburns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the Dromedary?

2. What is Maturin doing as Aubrey conferences with the Admiral?

3. How does the fort that the men find appear?

4. What do the crew finally commence?

5. Why does Aubrey give chase to a galley ship they encounter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the capture of a French privateer by the Surprise.

2. What does Maturin tell Fielding about his wife and about Maturin's friendship with his wife?

3. What are conditions like for the men on board the Niobe?

4. What is the attitude of the crew and why as they are returning on the Niobe?

5. How does Maturin help to protect Mrs. Fielding and pull off and intelligence coup?

6. What does Major Pollock tell Aubrey and what is Aubrey's response?

7. How do the men survive the remainder of their desert trek and in what kind of shape are they in at the end of their march?

8. Who does the crew encounter while setting up camp?

9. What concerns Aubrey about his failed mission with the treasure ship?

10. Describe the encounter with the treasure galley.

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