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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. Who is Mrs. Williams?
(a) Sophie's hypochondriac mother.
(b) Maturin's hypochondriac mother.
(c) Aubrey's hypochondriac mother.
(d) Sohpie's hypochondriac sister.

2. How many people have died from the illness?
(a) 37.
(b) 200.
(c) 133.
(d) 116.

3. What does Maturin do about the prisoners' illness?
(a) Cures it with medicine.
(b) He allows it to spread so people will become immune.
(c) He has no treatment for it.
(d) Tries to contain it.

4. Why does Aubrey make Grant first officer?
(a) Pullings is staying ashore.
(b) He has promoted Pullings.
(c) Pullings has died.
(d) Pullings is being made bosom.

5. What does Herapath ask of Maturin when Maturin goes ashore?
(a) Nothing.
(b) To let him escape.
(c) To post a letter for him.
(d) To take Wogan with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Herapath feel when he gets to the top of the ropes?

2. From whom does Maturin receive a summons?

3. How did the prisoners feel during the storm?

4. What is Maturin asked to do?

5. Why is Aubrey angry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of storm does Aubrey hit when he first sails and what does he do about it?

2. What happens to the convalescents on the ship?

3. How do the prisoners fare during the storm and what crimes do they commit?

4. How does Maturin manipulate Herapath?

5. What happens when the epidemic hits and who does Herapath replace?

6. What does the ship enter farther north than usual and what happens when it is there?

7. What is Aubrey doing at the beginning of the novel?

8. What does Maturin receive from Herapath twice and what does he find out?

9. What is Sophie doing about Aubrey's excesses?

10. The rescue of Herapath begins the novel's restrained, intricate, and playful treatment of the sexually-charged atmosphere of a man-of-war with hundreds of men and three women--one of them obviously pregnant and all of them dangerous criminals. What do you think is meant by this statement?

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