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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maturin excited to learn?
(a) That Clarissa knows several men who are Maturin's friends.
(b) That Clarissa knows the identity of Wray and Ledward's high-ranking accomplice.
(c) That Surprise is sailing on the morning tide.
(d) That Clarissa has changed since her life in England.

2. What outrages Sarah and Emily?
(a) That Aubrey is contemplating leaving them in the care of the local missionaries.
(b) That the butcher refuses to properly feed the animals brought on board.
(c) That they have to wear clothes on the island.
(d) That Clarissa gets to go ashore but they do not.

3. For what reason do Clarissa and Maturin go ashore together?
(a) To replenish medical supplies.
(b) To study the local flora and fauna.
(c) To seek a medical shaman.
(d) To seek a herbalogist.

4. Who drinks himself under the table?
(a) Midshipman Reade.
(b) The first mate.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Maturin.

5. What does Aubrey realize about his crew?
(a) That they are still in a giddy mood.
(b) That they do not seem to enjoy the sailing as much as usual.
(c) That something is seriously amiss.
(d) That they hav begun to slip in their duties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What divides the north from the south of the island?

2. To whom does Maturin write a coded letter?

3. Why does Clarissa secure a good position when she is put on the streets after Edward's death?

4. What distracts Maturin from his original purpose in going ashore with Clarissa?

5. Where does Clarissa meet William Oakes?

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