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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Grimshaw and Killick known?
(a) Surliness.
(b) Wit.
(c) Strength.
(d) Their sword fighting ability.

2. Where is Aubrey when Maturin awakes from his illness?
(a) Investigating a shipwreck on the other side of the island.
(b) In a fevered coma.
(c) At the construction site.
(d) Swimmingl.

3. What are his carpenters and seamen begun building?
(a) Huts for shelter.
(b) A schooner.
(c) A way to haul the ship up off the ocean floor.
(d) A new hull to patch the ship.

4. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?
(a) Refuse to take them on board.
(b) Rate them as midshipmen.
(c) Turns them before the mast.
(d) Put them in the brig.

5. For what purpose are the bribes?
(a) To delay Cornélie's refitting and resupply.
(b) To get Matruin aboard the Cornélie for a trip back to England.
(c) To assure that the harbormaster will give the Chinese safe passage.
(d) He does not give any bribes.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what are the nests good?

2. Who owns the Chinese junk?

3. Whose nests does Maturin find?

4. Who is presumed lost at sea?

5. What suddenly lands on the beach?

(see the answer key)

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