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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dutourd think Aubrey should consider him?
(a) As a savior of mankind.
(b) As a friend.
(c) As a superior.
(d) As a fellow officer.

2. What does Reade do that slows down Surprise?
(a) Falls overboard.
(b) Accidentally drops the anchor.
(c) Cuts the main spar.
(d) Puts his foot through the main sail.

3. What do the religious groups from the town in question #50 hate mutually?
(a) Wineries.
(b) Sheep farms.
(c) The British government.
(d) Imposed tithes.

4. Why do Martin and Maturin go aboard the Franklin?
(a) To say burial services.
(b) To resupply their medicines.
(c) To administer medical aid.
(d) They didn't go aboard the Franklin.

5. What is a particular viewpoint of Dutourd that Maturin attacks during dinner?
(a) That he believes humans can establish utopia.
(b) His idealist feelings about communism.
(c) His scorn of the British nobility.
(d) His championing of Rosseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dutourd ignore when aboard the Surprise?

2. What does Maturin do when his and Martin's relationship is almost hostile?

3. What do Maturin and Aubrey do together?

4. Of what does Vidal complain to Maturin?

5. How does Martin act with Maturin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maturin think Clarissa has to do with Martin's present state of mind?

2. What is happening in Martin and Maturin's relationship and what has Martin told Maturin?

3. How did Clarissa affect the crew of the Surprise?

4. What does Dutourd say about surrender and what does Aubrey discover in Franklin's papers?

5. Who is Clarissa Harvill, why was she on the Surprise, and what did Aubrey make her do?

6. How do the various religious groups on Surprise get along both on the ship and ashore?

7. What is Maturin's personal reason for going to Peru?

8. What does Franklin do to attempt to lose Surprise?

9. What does Maturin write to Diana about Martin and how does Martin and Maturin's friendship fare?

10. How have the crew fared during the event at the beginning of Chapter 2?

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