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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin think the sound is?
(a) A sirocco-type wind.
(b) A manatee-like creature.
(c) A whale.
(d) The sound of the seaweed flowing against the keel.

2. When does a strange wailing begin?
(a) When Horner lapses into a coma.
(b) When Horner dies.
(c) When Higgins shoots himself in the head.
(d) When Higgins jumps overboard.

3. How does Surprise get off the mud bank?
(a) They lighten the ship and wait for the tide to come in.
(b) The hole in the hull is repaired and the water is pumped out which allows her to float off it.
(c) The crew has to dig her out.
(d) She is pulled.

4. What does Maturin tell Mrs. Horner?
(a) Her husband will always be impotent.
(b) Her husband is not ill physically.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) Coca leaves would work as a contraceptive.

5. What joins Surprise as they are slipping through the islands?
(a) A few native canoes.
(b) A longboat.
(c) An Indiaman.
(d) A French privateer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey learn about their prey?

2. What does Surprise encounter and capture?

3. What does Aubrey learn about Danaë?

4. How does this acquaintance help the Surprise?

5. Why is Aubrey in such a hurry after they leave the area of São Francisco?

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