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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. What happens when Aubrey's ship traps the galley.
(a) Aubrey rams the galley and boards it.
(b) The galley sinks.
(c) The galley sets itself on fire.
(d) It eludes Aubrey a second time.

2. What does Aubrey encourage Honey and Maitland to do?
(a) Find a new career.
(b) Move to the United States.
(c) Accompany Maturin on his specimen-gathering expedition.
(d) Take their lieutenant's exam as soon as they return to Malta.

3. What are the average daily temperatures while at sea?
(a) 80.
(b) 125.
(c) 90.
(d) 70.

4. What does Aubrey fear about submitting his report?
(a) That the failed mission will end his career.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That he will not be given back the Surprise.
(d) That he will be held responsible for attacking the wrong galley.

5. What follows after the squalls?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) A horrendous cyclone.
(c) Three days of relative calm.
(d) Good breezes though with heavy fog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Lesueur when Maturin is sitting in the dark?

2. What does the Surprise claim?

3. What does Fielding hear regarding Aubrey?

4. What does Mr. Fielding tell Maturin?

5. Of what does Dundas complain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maturin tell Fielding about his wife and about Maturin's friendship with his wife?

2. Who leaves instructions for Aubrey and what are the orders?

3. Who does the crew encounter while setting up camp?

4. What are Maturin and Martin not affected by the weather as much?

5. What happens in Mrs. Fielding's home while Maturin sits in the dark awaiting her return?

6. Describe the encounter with the French man-of-war.

7. What does Aubrey do after crossing the desert?

8. How do the men survive the remainder of their desert trek and in what kind of shape are they in at the end of their march?

9. How does Mrs. Fielding change the atmosphere on board the Surprise?

10. What does Mr. Fielding falsely believe about Aubrey and how does that influence Mr. Fielding's choices?

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