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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?
(a) That he challenges Aubrey on a matter of seamanship.
(b) That he brought liquor on board the ship.
(c) That he is aboard the vessel.
(d) That he chose to stay at their last port.

2. To what does the man admit?
(a) Having turned an eye while the men were rolling the whiskey on board.
(b) Unofficially knowing of the presence of what Aubrey found below decks.
(c) Having smuggled the contraband aboard himself.
(d) Nothing.

3. With whom does Aubrey confer in Aubrey's cabin?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Jones.
(d) Oates.

4. How does narration characterize their mission?
(a) Successful.
(b) An abject failure.
(c) It has not yet been completed.
(d) Partly successful, but they fail to fulfill one aspect of the mission.

5. Who is Tom Pullings?
(a) The botswain's mate.
(b) The cook.
(c) The first mate.
(d) The second mate.

6. What island does Maturin hope to visit?
(a) Fuji.
(b) Wahila.
(c) Borneo.
(d) Tahiti.

7. What vessel is closing on Surprise?
(a) The HMS Leopard.
(b) The HMS Shamrock.
(c) The HMS Java.
(d) The HMS Éclair.

8. Who is pursuing the Surprise?
(a) A British cutter.
(b) An American man-of-war.
(c) An American privateer.
(d) A French man-of-war.

9. What does Aubrey anticipate when he goes back to England?
(a) Finding that his investments have soared.
(b) Learning if his father, who was critically ill, has died.
(c) The birth of his first son.
(d) Posting on a much larger vessel than the one he is currently on.

10. How does Aubrey react to his discovery?
(a) Indignant.
(b) Angry.
(c) Confused.
(d) Nonplussed.

11. For what will they use the harpooned creature?
(a) A wedding dinner for Oakes and Clarissa.
(b) To sell at the next port for fresh fruit.
(c) To stuff as a trophy on the outer bulkhead.
(d) Bait to catch more fish.

12. What does Aubrey find below decks?
(a) Clarissa.
(b) A dead crew member.
(c) A keg of contraband whiskey.
(d) A huge nest of rats.

13. What is the approximate date at the opening of the novel?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1813.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1811.

14. Who is Clarissa Oakes?
(a) The wife of Maturin's cousin.
(b) The daughter of the Egyptian consulate.
(c) A stowaway.
(d) Aubrey's sister-in-law.

15. Why had Padeen been at a penal colony?
(a) As the warden.
(b) As the cook.
(c) As a guard.
(d) For serious crimes he committed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is closed?

2. What does Aubrey order regarding pursuit?

3. What are Aubrey and Maturin doing as they sail?

4. Who insults Maturin one evening?

5. For what does the Surprise ready?

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