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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin do at the ball?
(a) Dances almost every dance.
(b) Watches other people and examines the potted plants.
(c) Sleeps in a corner chair.
(d) Escorts Villiers from group to group introducing her.

2. What do Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers do to effect a return to England?
(a) They take a slower packet.
(b) They take a private merchant vessel.
(c) They have to wait until later in the summer.
(d) They are onboard the fast packet with the original communiqué from Broke.

3. What is Maturin doing on shore?
(a) Trying to sleep.
(b) Finding a minister to marry him and Villiers.
(c) Attending the wounded.
(d) Having a quiet moment with Villiers.

4. In what type of work has Maturin been recently engaged?
(a) Teaching at the medical school.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Writing a novel.
(d) Collecting specimens.

5. What does Maturin buy Villiers?
(a) Passage back to Brazil.
(b) A pearl necklace.
(c) An expensive gown.
(d) Passage back to America.

6. What goes on for weeks?
(a) The celebrating in the town.
(b) Repairing the Shannon.
(c) The quarantine.
(d) Caring for the ill.

7. What news does Smith spread far and wide?
(a) News about who Villiers really is.
(b) News of hers and Aubrey's relationship.
(c) News that Aubrey's wife has died and Smith hopes to be his next wife.
(d) News of the fact that Aubrey was accused of syping in the United States.

8. What does Maturin obtain for Villiers?
(a) A certificate of safe passage.
(b) A room at a lady's boarding house.
(c) An engagement ring.
(d) A maid servant.

9. What does Maturin intend to do in Paris?
(a) Deliver diplomatic papers to the embassy.
(b) Lecture at a scientific academy.
(c) Learn what he can of his nephew's disappearance.
(d) Spy.

10. What does Captain Broke need to do?
(a) Join a blockade of the New York harbor.
(b) Return to the blockage of Washington.
(c) Write his official communiqué.
(d) Supervise the repairs of the Shannon.

11. What does Villiers' diamond necklace feature?
(a) The famous Blue Peter diamond.
(b) Diamonds stolen from a pirate vessel.
(c) Diamonds stolen from South Africa.
(d) The famous Hope diamond.

12. What impresses Smith about Aubrey?
(a) His tales of violent combat.
(b) His reverent mention of his deceased wife.
(c) His gallent mannerisms.
(d) His strong friendship with her cousin, Maturin.

13. What does Aubrey do when he first makes land?
(a) Finds out where his wife is buried.
(b) Finds out where his surviving children are.
(c) Goes to file his lenthly preliminary report to naval authorities.
(d) Reunites with Kimber.

14. What does Aubrey fear?
(a) He will not have the money to rebuild his home.
(b) His wife will die.
(c) His children will be lost without their mother.
(d) He is financially ruined.

15. What happens to one of the American schooners that delays their pursuit?
(a) It hits an iceberg.
(b) The rudder pinion breaks off.
(c) The main mast breaks.
(d) There is a mutiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kimber?

2. What compels Aubrey to find Smith quite attractive?

3. Who does Maturin learn has drowned?

4. Who is Beck?

5. What does Aubrey refuse to do?

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