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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin obtain for Villiers?
(a) A maid servant.
(b) A certificate of safe passage.
(c) A room at a lady's boarding house.
(d) An engagement ring.

2. What does the town do when the Shannon arrives?
(a) Warns it off because the town is quarantined.
(b) Erupts in a tumultuous celebration.
(c) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(d) Asks Aubrey if the war is really over.

3. What does Maturin advise Aubrey?
(a) To send his children to boarding school.
(b) To take the second vessel carrying the recovering wounded.
(c) To borrow money from his wealthy father-in-law.
(d) To not fret over things he cannot control.

4. What does Maturin ask his fellow physicians?
(a) What medicine to give Villiers.
(b) How to know if a woman loves you.
(c) How to diagnose early pregnancy.
(d) If they will assume the teaching of his classes for a while.

5. In what type of work has Maturin been recently engaged?
(a) Collecting specimens.
(b) Writing a novel.
(c) Teaching at the medical school.
(d) Intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin do at the ball?

2. What is the relationship between Harry Johnson and Villiers?

3. How does Aubrey treat Smith?

4. What has Villiers recently become?

5. What is the Diligence?

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