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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. Where is Captain Aubrey headed?
(a) Booth Bay, New Zealand.
(b) Tasmania.
(c) Cape Horn.
(d) Botany Bay, Australia.

2. Who has criticized Aubrey's handling of the ship?
(a) Herapath.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Lt. Socour.
(d) Lt. Grant.

3. With what does Maturin find Aubrey busy?
(a) Dicing.
(b) Playing polo.
(c) Get-rich-quick schemes.
(d) Gardening.

4. Where does the Leopard go to make repairs?
(a) Tahiti.
(b) Rock Island.
(c) Treasure Island.
(d) Desolation Island.

5. What does Aubrey do about the peeping hole?
(a) Tells Maturin he can use it for spying activities.
(b) Uses it himself.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Puts a stop to it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maturin feel about his manipulations of Wogan and Herapath?

2. In what part of the ship were the prisoners held?

3. Why is the officer causing problems?

4. What does Maturin do about the prisoners' illness?

5. How did the prisoners feel during the storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. Maturin begins to mention Herapath to Wogan as a unique case--she claims an interest because she had seen his fall. It seems simple enough to Maturin, and soon enough he discusses Herapath with Wogan freely. All along, the three maintain their innocence. What do you think it means when Maturin thinks Wogan's explanation is dimple enough?

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

3. How does Maturin manipulate Herapath?

4. Why is Maturin called to the Admiralty?

5. What does Pullings find after the storm?

6. Why has Villiers left her home?

7. Who is Lieutenant Grant and what is Aubrey's problem with him?

8. 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?

9. Wogan's viewing of Aubrey's nude body is humorous and a fictional inversion of usual events. Why do you think the scene is an inversion of usual events?

10. What does Maturin decide he must do over the Villiers affair and what does he do?

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