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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maturin's position on board?
(a) The steward.
(b) The ship's surgeon.
(c) The first mate.
(d) The cook.

2. What port do they depart at the opening of the story?
(a) Port au Prince.
(b) Luxumborg.
(c) Haifa.
(d) Port Jackson.

3. Who smuggles Clarissa on board?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Midshipman William Oakes.
(c) Tom Pullings.
(d) No one knows.

4. Who owns the vessel?
(a) The English naval department.
(b) The Dutch government.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Aubrey.

5. What is Aubrey intending to do?
(a) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Tahiti.
(b) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Norfolk Island.
(c) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on the Eastern coast of Africa.
(d) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Easter Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is causing contention among the ship's officers?

2. Who is Tom Pullings?

3. To what does the man admit?

4. What vessel are Aubrey and Maturin sailing?

5. Where has one of the patients that Maturin is examining been?

(see the answer key)

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