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

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

3. Who is aged, dissipated by alcohol, and fairly crass of speech?
(a) Alyers.
(b) Villiers.
(c) Wogan.
(d) George Herapath.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does it seem Villiers looks to Maturin?

2. How is Herapath tying to make a living?

3. How does Aubrey respond to the Navy's questions?

4. About what does Aubrey brood?

5. How does Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers get out of the harbor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is humorous about Aubrey's daily observations of the bay?

2. What happens to Maturin in Chapter 7 that makes it obvious that he needs to come up with a viable escape plan very soon?

3. About what does Maturin caution Villiers and why do you think he does so?

4. What do you think is interesting about the fact that Johnson spends large sums of money and time gathering intelligence for the United States and is it likely that someone would do that in this age?

5. Why do you think Aubrey feels it is justified to violate his "parole," which he gives as an officer and gentleman?

6. How does Maturin figure out that he has been identified as the intelligence officer and what is the implication?

7. How does Villiers seem to Maturin and what actions has she taken that were unwise?

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

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

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

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