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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aubrey do soon after being shipboard?

3. What ship do they find?

4. What are the average daily temperatures while at sea?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Egyptian Wind affect sailing?

2. Why does Aubrey decide to commence training Mr. Maitland and Mr. Honey?

3. What are Maturin and Martin not affected by the weather as much?

4. What concerns the men when they arrive at the fort, but what happens in the end?

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

6. Describe the encounter with the French man-of-war.

7. What happens to the crew's supplies?

8. Who leaves instructions for Aubrey and what are the orders?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Treason's Harbour.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Treason's Harbour. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors and by the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Treason's Harbour. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors and by the action?

Essay Topic 2

During this era when the book takes place, if a vessel under the command of a naval officer captures another vessel from a country with whom they are warring or captures a pirate vessel and the crew of the victorious vessel shares in the goods, money and value of the vessel. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think the British had such a policy in place then?

2. What are the possible abuses that can arise from such a policy?

3. Why do you think this policy is eventually abandoned?

4. Which vessel(s) are mentioned in Treason's Harbour that fall under this maritime law and what are the circumstances of their capture? Does it seem fair?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation of everyone assuming Aubrey is having an affair with Mrs. Fielding while Aubrey assumes Maturin is having an affair with her and neither set of assumptions are correct.

2. Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use of and meaning of five symbols you choose to analyze from Treason's Harbour. What do they symbolize? Is the symbolism obvious? Effective? Does the symbolism contribute to the enjoyment of reading?

3. Discuss five literary devices that occur in Treason's Harbour and how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why or why not. Some possible techniques: Allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.

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