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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what are the nests good?
(a) For constructing strong ropes.
(b) For starting fires quickly.
(c) Medicinal purposes.
(d) Use in cooking birds' nest soup.

2. What do the attackers do as they retreat?
(a) Kill their wounded.
(b) Drag several sailors with them.
(c) Burn the schooner.
(d) Bow to the English sailors.

3. How far do they figure they will have to sail to find assistance?
(a) About 60 miles to the East African coast.
(b) About 200 miles.
(c) About 80 miles to India.
(d) Almost to the European continent.

4. Why do several new men join the crew?
(a) To get a ride back to England.
(b) Aubrey does not hire any new men.
(c) To help as prize crew.
(d) To bring the vessel to full strength.

5. Why do the sailors find Kesegaran interesting?
(a) She is sexually accomodating.
(b) She strips naked when hiking.
(c) She wears European men's clothing.
(d) She is seven feet tall.

6. What passes through the area?
(a) No one.
(b) A group of Malaysians.
(c) A sudden storm.
(d) Two French frigates.

7. Why has a Dutch-built ship sunk?
(a) It was too old for the sea.
(b) It was in a fire fight with an English man-o-war.
(c) It hit a reef.
(d) It carried the plague.

8. Who does Maturin encounter that he knows on the trip on the junk?
(a) One of the pirates.
(b) One of the Chinese.
(c) One of the sailors on the French frigate.
(d) One of the sailors on the French privateer.

9. How does Kesegaran get to the island?
(a) On a French privateer.
(b) The slaver ship she was on wrecks.
(c) In a proa.
(d) She lives there.

10. Why is the Nutmeg of Consolation readied for sea in haste?
(a) The former Governor needs to be at his new post immediately.
(b) There is a bad storm moving in.
(c) They are going to try to catch Cornélie.
(d) Napoleon is gathering his forces near Brest.

11. What does Raffles' wife ask of Aubrey?
(a) To take her along to go to England.
(b) To take aboard two young midshipmen.
(c) Nothing.
(d) To hire her husband for this one trip.

12. What does Maturin play up?
(a) A minor injury on a child.
(b) A minor injury that he suffers.
(c) The wonder of birds' nest soup.
(d) A minor injury that Aubrey suffers.

13. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?
(a) Rate them as midshipmen.
(b) Refuse to take them on board.
(c) Put them in the brig.
(d) Turns them before the mast.

14. Who will depart about the Cornélie?
(a) The French delegation to Pulo Prabang.
(b) Martin and Maturin.
(c) Pullings.
(d) Lafayette.

15. Who is William Grimshaw?
(a) The accountant for the Governor.
(b) The quartermaster for the ground forces.
(c) A sailor who becomes good friends with Killick.
(d) A lieutenant on board.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the nests?

2. What does Fox leave with his clerk?

3. What does Aubrey do with the cannons?

4. Approximately how many men are marooned on an unnamed island?

5. Where is the unnamed island?

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