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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maturin feel about the possible success of the rebellion?
(a) Cautiously optimistic.
(b) Uncertain.
(c) Very confident.
(d) Pessimistic.

2. What does Maturin's group detour to see?
(a) A rare species of indigent deerlike creatures.
(b) A tribe heretofore never known about.
(c) A new species of gorilla.
(d) An alpine lake.

3. Why is the American from question #94 not guilty of treason?
(a) He owns the ship.
(b) He joined the crew before the outbreak of war.
(c) He has been rejected by the British military.
(d) He has dual citizenship.

4. How does General Hurtado feel about independence?
(a) He is indifferent to it.
(b) He is totally against it.
(c) He is uncertain about it.
(d) He is in favor of it.

5. What is Maturin doing in the Andes?
(a) Buying coca leaves.
(b) Visiting the Abbess of the convent.
(c) Meeting with the local rebellion leaders.
(d) Visiting a friend at the monastery.

6. What does Aubrey decide to do from the Franklin?
(a) Shoot Dutourd.
(b) Hang Vidal.
(c) Set out for shore in a small boat.
(d) Leave Maturin.

7. Why does Maturin nearly go unconscious several times while traveling?
(a) He does not know.
(b) He has malaria.
(c) Dengue fever.
(d) The altitude.

8. What helps Maturin's physical problems?
(a) Coca leaves.
(b) Opium.
(c) Laudenum.
(d) Quinine.

9. What is not going to take place?
(a) Negotiations.
(b) Recruiting.
(c) The rebellion.
(d) Refitting.

10. What is one of the possibly permanent problems Martin has physically?
(a) Weak left hand.
(b) Muscle spasms.
(c) None.
(d) Vertigo.

11. What kind of news does the Englishman give Aubrey?
(a) The Spanish western Amanda is close.
(b) There is an American privateer nearby.
(c) The Spanish have four battleships in a blockade of Peru.
(d) There is a French privateer nearby.

12. What has Maturin been called by the person in question #140?
(a) A British agent provocateur.
(b) A heretic.
(c) A thief.
(d) A poor physician.

13. What flag does Franklin fly when approaching the ship from question #91?
(a) Spanish.
(b) American.
(c) British.
(d) Peruvian.

14. Who is the Englishman serving aboard the ship from question #91?
(a) Robert Petton.
(b) Edward Shelton.
(c) Thomas Neville.
(d) Bradley Cunningham.

15. What is getting in the way of Aubrey's plans on the Franklin?
(a) A vandal who has wrecked all the boats.
(b) Vidal is not on board the vessel.
(c) A large storm area.
(d) His head injury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is considered a wanted fugitive?

2. What does Maturin describe in his letter to his wife from Peru?

3. What happens to Aubrey during the taking of the prize ship?

4. What interest does Eduardo share with Maturin?

5. What begins to develop as Aubrey sets out for the ship the Englishman told him about?

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