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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Villiers go after Maturin collapses?
(a) For help.
(b) To Naval Intelligence.
(c) To Aubrey.
(d) To the English embassy.

2. Who is cleared in a court martial?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Liertenant Chad and the other surviving Java officers.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Broke.

3. How is Maturin threatened?
(a) By a thinly-veiled note from the Admiral of the Navies.
(b) He is not threatened, merely entreated.
(c) By taking him to the Naval prison yard.
(d) By saying he will be handed over to the French.

4. What is the weather like as Aubrey looks out over the harbor after the questioning?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Clear and warm.
(d) Dense fog.

5. As what is Maturin finally identified?
(a) An excellent naturalist.
(b) An intelligence officer.
(c) A double agent.
(d) A state-of-the-art physician.

6. How is Aubrey's arm?
(a) Nearly unusable.
(b) It will never function properly again.
(c) Much better.
(d) Completely recovered.

7. What ship does Herapath intend to use to help Aubrey?
(a) The Caroline.
(b) The Booby Lou.
(c) The Arcturus.
(d) The Java.

8. Of what do Johnson's plantation workers comprise?
(a) Well-paid freed slaves.
(b) A large group of slaves, mostly his own progeny.
(c) Well-paid poor white farmers.
(d) He has no plantations to speak of.

9. How does Johnson respond to news of the assault on Maturin?
(a) He is nonplussed.
(b) He seems indifferent.
(c) He is outraged.
(d) He uses it to again threaten Maturin.

10. Why would Maturin even consider becoming a double agent?
(a) To earn more money.
(b) To end the War of 1812.
(c) To escape from the United States.
(d) To learn about the American network of spies.

11. How does Aubrey respond to the Navy's questions?
(a) Incredulous.
(b) Cooperative.
(c) He is angry and shaken.
(d) Indifferent.

12. Who intervenes in Maturin's almost abduction?
(a) A local militiaman.
(b) Some other sailors.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Some English officers.

13. Who is Wogan's employer?
(a) George Herapath.
(b) Diana Villiers.
(c) Harry Johnson.
(d) No one.

14. About what does the Navy department interview Aubrey?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Some ancient and rather cryptic notes.
(c) An order that is intercepted by the Americans.
(d) A missive from Admiral Nelson.

15. What does Aubrey watch in the dense fog?
(a) A spy being hung.
(b) Maturin being tortured.
(c) Two American frigates sneak past the English blockade.
(d) Two English frigates sneak past the American blockade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Villiers reveal when she returns to her room?

2. What does Maturin want from Herapath?

3. Who does Maturin go to see after speaking to Michael Herapath?

4. How does George Herapath view the current war?

5. Why is Herapath glad that Villiers is leaving?

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