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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Villiers reveal when she returns to her room?
(a) That Aubrey has been murdered.
(b) That she is unable to find help.
(c) That there are soldiers on every street corner.
(d) That Johnson is dead.

2. Who does Maturin go to see after speaking to Michael Herapath?
(a) George Herapath.
(b) Wogan.
(c) A friend in the State Department.
(d) Evans.

3. What does Maturin want from Herapath?
(a) Lessons on playing cricket.
(b) To borrow some money to bribe Aubrey's guards.
(c) Pistols for protection.
(d) A horse to ride to New York and escape via a ship from that port.

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

5. Who is Maturin calling upon when he is assaulted?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Aubrey.
(c) Wogan.
(d) Villiers.

6. What is Villiers to Maturin?
(a) Good friends for many years.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His longtime love interest.
(d) A contact in British intelligence.

7. Who is Philip Broke?
(a) Captain of the prison guard.
(b) Aubrey's cousin and Captain of the HMS Shannon.
(c) Captain of the USS Constitution.
(d) Cousin to Michael Herapath.

8. What field of study does Maturin recommend George Herapath encourage his son to pursue?
(a) Trade.
(b) Law.
(c) The military.
(d) Medicine.

9. Who goes into the hotel to retrieve Maturin and Villiers?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) George Herapath.
(c) Michael Herapath.
(d) Wogan.

10. Why is Maturin going to marry Villiers?
(a) He has gotten her pregnant.
(b) Because he loves her.
(c) So her American citizenship will be void.
(d) He thinks it is the best way to protect her.

11. What does Aubrey watch daily?
(a) The torture of his crew.
(b) The meetings between Villiers and Naval Intelligence.
(c) The changing of the prison guard.
(d) The forays of the HMS Shannon.

12. What is full of double entendre between Johnson and Maturin?
(a) Their initial conversation.
(b) The conversation between Aubrey and U.S. Naval Intelligence.
(c) The conversation between Maturin and George Herapath.
(d) The conversation between Villiers and Maturin.

13. Of what does George Herapath assure Maturin?
(a) That the American Naval intelligence is quite efficient.
(b) The opportunity to court his daughter.
(c) Friendship and advocacy.
(d) Justice for Aubrey.

14. What do Aubrey and Herapath plan?
(a) How to get Villiers safely to England.
(b) How to get Maturin out of the hotel.
(c) How to kill Dubreuil.
(d) How to waylay Johnson.

15. What does Maturin find among Johnson's papers?
(a) A check to Villiers for 10,000 dollars.
(b) Maturin's marriage proposal.
(c) A note from the President of the United States.
(d) Signs that Johnson is a double agent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does George Herapath feel about Wogan?

2. Upon whom does George Herapath dote?

3. Who calls on Maturin at Asclepia?

4. Who is cleared in a court martial?

5. Why is Herapath glad that Villiers is leaving?

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