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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What offer to the French has the Sultan officially rejected?
(a) Offer to align with the French.
(b) Offer to hear a presentation.
(c) Offer of safe conduct.
(d) Offer to allow a French embassy.

2. What type of network does Van Buren have?
(a) He just moved there and knows no one.
(b) Extensive number of contacts.
(c) He knows a few people.
(d) He only knows people in science.

3. Where does Maturin find the youngest midshipmen and in what condition?
(a) Hiding in the Sultan's palace and drunk.
(b) Drunken and reveling in a brothel.
(c) High on drugs in an opium den.
(d) In a mosque sitting quietly.

4. What is the primary reason Maturin contacts Van Buren?
(a) To ask him about brain surgery.
(b) To meet his wife.
(c) To see his circulatory charts.
(d) To enlist him on the side of the English delegation.

5. Why is Maturin unable to collect any specimens at the monastery?
(a) They are in a national wildlife preserve.
(b) They are all too large.
(c) They are protected by Buddhist beliefs.
(d) He didn't bring any collection bottles.

6. What does Abdul demand from Fox?
(a) He demands Fox stay on the ship.
(b) A present.
(c) An apology.
(d) That Fox have sex with him.

7. Why does Maturin bring the bodies in question #149 to Van Buren?
(a) To bury them.
(b) To look at a possible new disease.
(c) To show him the effects of peppering.
(d) To dissect them.

8. Who is the Sultan's cup-bearer?
(a) Abdul.
(b) Hassan.
(c) Mohammad.
(d) Osama.

9. How did Aubrey and Fox feel towards each other?
(a) Restrained dislike.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Enthusiastic respect.
(d) Indifferent.

10. Who does Aubrey occasionally allow to come aboard the Diane?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Vendors.
(c) Artists.
(d) Young members of the Sultan's court.

11. Who does Maturin watch closely at the diner following the French presentation?
(a) The Sultan.
(b) Ledward and Wray.
(c) The leader of the French delegation.
(d) The Sultan's catamite.

12. What is the crew like on the Diane?
(a) Experienced.
(b) Well intergrated.
(c) Sloppy and undisciplined.
(d) Disciplined but new.

13. How do the midshipmen feel about their class on spherical trigonometry?
(a) They think it's exciting.
(b) They like it.
(c) They find it boring.
(d) They have no opinion.

14. How does Van Buren feel about the French?
(a) He loves them.
(b) He is married to one.
(c) He is indifferent to them.
(d) He hates them.

15. Why does Aubrey hold classes in seamanship and navigation for the midshipmen aboard?
(a) The men begged him for classes.
(b) He takes their education seriously.
(c) He likes to teach.
(d) He is bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Aubrey and Maturin learn about banks in England?

2. What does Maturin see the cup-bearer doing during the dinner?

3. Why does Fox enlist a group of British diplomats to accompany him to Pulo Prabang?

4. What does Aubrey decide to do to show off Diane?

5. Into what does Van Buren and Maturin's relationship evolve?

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