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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. What does Wogan want Herapath to do?
(a) Steal the intelligence in the safe.
(b) Get her off the ship before Botany Bay.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Copy any intelligence on the ship.

2. For what does Aubrey prepare the crew?
(a) Wintering on Desolation Island.
(b) Sailing without a rudder.
(c) Getting to Botany Bay before winter.
(d) Returning to the ice island to get the forge.

3. How well does Grant handle a ship?
(a) Very poorly.
(b) Very well.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Almost as good as Aubrey.

4. Who often goes with Maturin when he explores the area?
(a) Aubrey and Babbington.
(b) Bonden and Herapath.
(c) Bonden and Wogan.
(d) Wogan and Pullings.

5. What is put under the kneel of the ship which finally staunches the flow of water?
(a) Planks from the decking.
(b) A large chuck of ice lodged in the hole.
(c) A third fothering-sail.
(d) All of the canvas that isn't being used.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leopard compare to Waakzaamheid?

2. What are three food resources that Desolation Island has in abundance?

3. What does Aubrey have done to his cabin?

4. What does Maturin do right after the Dutch ship sinks?

5. What does Larkin do during lunch one day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aubrey win the battle with the Dutch ship?

2. What does the crew do after being safely anchored and what repair is impossible and why?

3. What does Aubrey decide to do after missing an island on which to land and who does he bring up as a possible reason for pessimism?

4. From what is the ship saved right after it makes safe harbor at Desolation Island?

5. Why does Aubrey decide Cape Town is not a good destination?

6. What does Herapath's relating his experience with opium cause Maturin to do and why?

7. Why does Leopard end up too far south?

8. While the crew works, Maturin visits a small island in the bay--it is so encumbered of strange life that Maturin christens it Paradise. Why do you think Maturin named the island Paradise considering it is near Antarctica and is probably pretty cold?

9. Why is the Leopard outclassed by the Waakzaamheid?

10. What does the fact that the Waakzaamheid has found the Leopard mean as far as the Dutch captain goes?

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