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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey do about Corbett and Clonfert?
(a) Court martial both of them.
(b) Send Clonfert to England.
(c) Have them flogged and demoted.
(d) Sends Corbett back to England with a captured ship.

2. For what is Stephen Maturin most known?
(a) As a lawyer.
(b) As a general.
(c) As a professor.
(d) As a physician.

3. What does Aubrey insinuate about Lord Clonfert?
(a) Various bizarre stories about him circulate.
(b) He's a French sympathizer.
(c) He's only captain cause he's a Lord.
(d) He is only a minor nobility.

4. What kind of ship is the Néréide?
(a) A sloop.
(b) A thirty-six gun frigate.
(c) A forty-eight gun Longship.
(d) A battle cruiser.

5. What happens to the Raisonable after the squadron returns to Cape Town?
(a) It is scraped.
(b) It is retired.
(c) It's sent to French Guinea.
(d) It's sent to England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin keep on a daily basis?

2. What does Sophie ask Maturin to do?

3. What do Maturin and McAdam continue to do?

4. From the discussions between McAdam and Maturin what does the word palliative means?

5. To where does Aubrey move his flag?

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