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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 Jack tell all of the Midshipmen to do?
(a) Choose men which would become midshipmen in the future
(b) To set sail for land
(c) Train for a promotion
(d) Write home

2. What has caused negative reactions in the quarters?
(a) Dillon's choice to allow the two men to escape
(b) Leaving behind Stephen
(c) Jack having a woman aboard
(d) Jack's liking of Dillon

3. What is the usual punishment for sailors aboard the Sophie?
(a) Confined to quarters
(b) Quarantined
(c) Walking overboard
(d) Flogging

4. Upon which ship do the men sneak up and take by surprise?
(a) Gloire
(b) Xalac
(c) Santa Lucia
(d) Parlac

5. Who preferred to be far away from the bad-smelling and noisy experience of exercising the guns?
(a) Marhsall
(b) Jack
(c) Dillon
(d) Stephen

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Jack write to tell of the capture of the Cacafuego?

2. What interrupts the breakfast of the two captains?

3. Which of the following does Dillon believe to be Jack's biggest weakness?

4. Who put white chalk into the food?

5. Which of the following was Stephen unable to see on the voyage when the Sophie was near Greece and Egypt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What proves to Jack and the crew the ship with the blue ensign is from England?

2. Why will the dinner at Captain Harte's be awkward for Stephen?

3. What changed about the way Molly was treated throughout the novel?

4. Despite his lack of knowledge about surgery, at what does Stephen excel?

5. What does Stephen tell Jack he must do in order to recover from the disease he got from Molly?

6. Why does Admiral Keith tell Jack that he will probably never rise to pos-captain?

7. What happens during the battle between the Sophie and the Cacafuego?

8. What does Jack realize he must give up after he talks with Admiral Saumarex?

9. Why does Jack go back to the Crown and what does he do while he is there?

10. What does Stephen see when he bends under the table to retrieve his napkin?

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