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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey dislike about his father?
(a) All of these.
(b) His debt.
(c) His political impropriety.
(d) His treatment of his new wife.

2. What causes a crew member to be so disobedient to the order about the birds?
(a) He is insane.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He is drunk.
(d) He is hungry.

3. What do the officers gossip about while at the first stop?
(a) What the mission will be.
(b) Other officers.
(c) All of these.
(d) The personalities of the crew.

4. What does the crew of the Jemmapes fear when Aubrey fires on them?
(a) They are being attacked by pirates.
(b) They have a new secret weapon.
(c) A dead man is the captain.
(d) They are breaking a treaty.

5. Why does Maturin live away from his wife when he is in town?
(a) It saves them money.
(b) It is the fashion of the time.
(c) He chooses to do so.
(d) She has commanded him to.

6. What is Aubrey's title in the Navy?
(a) Sergeant.
(b) General.
(c) Captain.
(d) Commandant.

7. What is the Worcester crew made up of?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Luckless sailors.
(c) Lunatics.
(d) All of these.

8. What is Graham's job on the ship?
(a) War strategist.
(b) Surgeon.
(c) Political advisor.
(d) Parson.

9. Who is badly injured after the run-in with the Jemmapes?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Mettow.
(c) Barrett.
(d) Pullings.

10. What diminishes Martin's love for the Navy?
(a) Witnessing floggings.
(b) Seeing a man die.
(c) Getting shot at.
(d) Going thirsty at sea.

11. Who disobeys the order to leave the birds on the ship alone?
(a) Mowett.
(b) Somers.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Dundas.

12. Who gets mad about the treatment of the birds that land on the ship?
(a) Martin.
(b) Aubrey.
(c) Thornton.
(d) Graham.

13. Why does Aubrey not want to sail on the Worcester?
(a) He has been on it before.
(b) He wants to stay home.
(c) He thinks it is beneath him.
(d) He knows it will get into danger.

14. What region is Thornton most worried about with the blockade?
(a) The Ionian region.
(b) The Mediterranean region.
(c) The Baltic region.
(d) The French region.

15. What is Latham's ship called?
(a) Astonished.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Expert.
(d) Exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the crew not want to deliver people to destinations?

2. Why does someone get mad about how the crew treats the birds that land on the ship?

3. What is Pullings' title in the Navy?

4. Why is Maturin called away from the trip?

5. What does Aubrey call his biggest burden as a captain?

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