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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Aubrey and the Leopard crew volunteer to do?
(a) Serve the forward gun battery.
(b) Man the rigging.
(c) Guard the diplomat and his retinue.
(d) Serve on the boarding crew.

2. What does Maturin do after Java strikes her colors?
(a) Runs down to his quarters to save his laudenum.
(b) Tends to the wounded.
(c) Asks permission to retain his specimen collection.
(d) Operates on Aubrey's head.

3. Over what does Maturin agonize when on board the La Flèche?
(a) Why he made such a fool of himself on the cricket field.
(b) What he will tell his wife who did not think he was returning to her.
(c) How to categorize some of the odd species he has collected.
(d) His numerous natural history specimens.

4. How long is the life boat in which Aubrey and his men float?
(a) 32 feet.
(b) 18 feet.
(c) 24 feet.
(d) 14 feet.

5. Where does the Constitution land?
(a) Norfolk.
(b) New York.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Evans present to Maturin for Aubrey?

2. About what does Aubrey brood?

3. Who is a private citizen with connections to American intelligence?

4. How are Aubrey's men received?

5. Upon whom does George Herapath dote?

(see the answer key)

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