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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. About what does Aubrey brood?
(a) The loss of the use of his shattered arm.
(b) The English defeats at sea.
(c) Being on American soil.
(d) His possible execution.

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

3. Why does Maturin speak to a priest?
(a) To confess that he commited treason.
(b) To confess killing a man.
(c) To ask after an old friend who is a Catholic priest in Boston.
(d) To talk about his upcoming marriage.

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

5. Whose throat does Maturin slit with a scalpel?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Pontet-Canet.
(c) Wogan.
(d) Villiers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Maturin going to marry Villiers?

3. What is Villiers to Maturin?

4. Why is Herapath glad that Villiers is leaving?

5. Upon what does Johnson spend vast sums of money?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mr. Herapath so happy to hear that Villiers is leaving the United States?

2. What does Wogan attempt to persuade Maturin to agree to and how do you think he may feel about it?

3. What happens that even in the midst of the drama of escape is humorous?

4. What is one thing that is perhaps likable about George Herapath?

5. How does Maturin explain his engagement to Villiers to Aubrey and what does this engagement say about Maturin's character?

6. Why does Maturin think Wogan does not know he disseminated bad intelligence and what do you think he should do about it?

7. Why would Maturin and Johnson have a discussion about birds and how does this discussion enhance the playful tone of the novel?

8. What does Maturin do that seems contrary to his work as a doctor?

9. What is Mr. Herapath's task in the scheme to effect an escape for Villiers, Aubrey and Maturin and how does he fail at it? What does this say about Mr. Herapath?

10. Who is Harry Johnson and what is his connection to Wogan?

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