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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who criticizes Aubrey for not taking the blockade runner?
(a) Admiral Haddock.
(b) Stephen Maturin.
(c) Admiral Harte.
(d) Adam Scriven.

2. Which character is intelligent, demure, and eminently proper?
(a) Frances Williams.
(b) Mrs. Williams.
(c) Sophia Williams.
(d) Diana Villiers.

3. Who owns a personal estate just across the border in Spain?
(a) Diana Villiers.
(b) Sophia Williams.
(c) Captain Jack Aubrey.
(d) Doctor Stephen Maturin.

4. Where do Captain Aubrey and Doctor Maturin flee to from England?.
(a) Salzburg, Austria.
(b) Hamburg, Germany.
(c) Madrid, Spain.
(d) Toulon, France.

5. What is the name of the suitor whom Mrs. Williams has arranged for her daughter, Sophia?
(a) Parker.
(b) Bowles.
(c) Hampton.
(d) Stimson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Captain Aubrey's first sea command?

2. Who does Sophia label and caution Maturin about as being a difficult case?

3. What position is held by MacDonald aboard the Polychrest?

4. Who is Preserved Killick?

5. Who do Captain Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin compare notes on, and secretly, mutually desire following the ball

(see the answer key)

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