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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. What does Aubrey do about Corbett and Clonfert?
(a) Sends Corbett back to England with a captured ship.
(b) Send Clonfert to England.
(c) Court martial both of them.
(d) Have them flogged and demoted.

2. What does Lady Clonfert request of Aubrey?
(a) The money he owes her.
(b) To take her son under his protection.
(c) Passage to London.
(d) Passage as far as Cape Town.

3. How does Aubrey feel about the captain of the Sirius?
(a) He thinks he belongs on land.
(b) He thinks he's okay.
(c) He believes the man can't sail.
(d) He holds him in high regard.

4. What kind of relationship develops between Aubrey and Colonel Keating?
(a) Dislike.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Saracastic and competitive.
(d) Working relationship.

5. What is the state of Clonfert's ship?
(a) Missing a mizzenmast.
(b) In dry dock.
(c) Listing heavily from a poorly-loaded hold.
(d) Heavily decorated in bizarre fineries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of Captain is Corbett known to be?

2. What kind of mental stress is Maturin fighting?

3. What is bothering Aubrey's family?

4. Why doesn't Aubrey have a command?

5. For what is Stephen Maturin most known?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who will be meeting the French force at Mauritius?

2. What happens to Farquhar?

3. How does Aubrey spend his time at home and how does he feel about being home?

4. What does Pullings arrive in to help Aubrey and how does that turn out?

5. What does Aubrey have the crews doing on the voyage?

6. What do the three men say about the captains of the other ships?

7. What has happened to Corbett?

8. What does Maturin say is the reason he has come to see Aubrey?

9. What French ship does Aubrey encounter and what does he do with it? How does Aubrey feel about his actions?

10. With what does Maturin enlist Mr. Cotton's help and how did it go?

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