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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Dundas?
(a) Maturin's cousin.
(b) A longtime enemy of Aubrey's.
(c) A longtime friend of Aubrey's.
(d) Mrs. Fielding's brother.

2. What is Higgins' skill that Maturin needs?
(a) Psychiatry.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Dentistry.
(d) Herbal doctor.

3. Who acts as Second Lieutenant?
(a) Hollom.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Mowett.
(d) Allen.

4. What is Horner's position on board Surprise?
(a) Cook's mate.
(b) Second deck mate.
(c) Lookout.
(d) Gunner's mate.

5. What information does Allen have about whales?
(a) None.
(b) Not much.
(c) Mostly folk lore.
(d) About their behaviors, species and how much oil they produce.

6. How were Maturin and Mrs. Fielding rumored to once be associated?
(a) As having an affair.
(b) As business partners.
(c) As assassins.
(d) As undercover British spies.

7. What does Martin say he has been contemplating?
(a) Leaving the Navy.
(b) Settling in the West Indies.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Marriage.

8. What friend does Maturin encounter on shore?
(a) Reverend Mr. Martin.
(b) Reverend John Jells.
(c) Reverend Mr. Brierly.
(d) None.

9. Who is Mr. Wray?
(a) A special ops undercover British agent.
(b) A retired British lawyer.
(c) A French spy.
(d) Maturin's oldest and best friend.

10. What is Midshipman Hollom's situation on Gibraltar?
(a) In the brig.
(b) Works for the Fieldings.
(c) Supervises a refit project for the Celebration.
(d) Penniless.

11. Why does Maturin find Allen's conversation interesting?
(a) Maturin once was on a vessel captured by pirates.
(b) His father was a whaler.
(c) He loves natural history.
(d) Maturin wonders about the claims about the Bermuda Triangle.

12. What does Wray constantly work to do?
(a) Ferret out double spies for British intelligence.
(b) Support Maturin.
(c) Destroy Maturin.
(d) Finding new species of plants in the West Indies.

13. What is Maturin's position on board the Surprise?
(a) First mate.
(b) First Officer.
(c) Surgeon.
(d) Gunner's mate.

14. How does Surprise send mail home?
(a) With a private British schooner.
(b) With a Dutch freighter.
(c) With a British man-o-war they meet up with.
(d) With the Indiamen.

15. Who once gave Mrs. Fielding passage aboard his ship?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Phipps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sir Ives say about the USS Norfolk?

2. What happens to over half of the whales killed?

3. What mission is Aubrey given?

4. What does Allen discuss at great length?

5. What rumors once existed about Mrs. Fielding?

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