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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin feel as he travels to call on Villiers?
(a) Hopeful she will marry him.
(b) A little anxious.
(c) Self-critical observations and dread.
(d) Excited.

2. What does Maturin think has affected the rats?
(a) The type of food they carry.
(b) The storm.
(c) The prisoners.
(d) Nothing he can see.

3. Who is the officer Aubrey is having trouble with?
(a) Lt. Grant.
(b) First mate Brown.
(c) Bosom Parker.
(d) Second mate Linemen.

4. What is one purpose of Aubrey's trip?
(a) To incite a revolt.
(b) To map the seas around the Horn.
(c) To transport criminals to the penal colony.
(d) To meet with the native chiefs.

5. On what vessel had there been a mutiny?
(a) The Bligh.
(b) The Exeter.
(c) The Leopard.
(d) The Bounty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Killick and Bonden?

2. Why does Sophie talk Aubrey into keeping the command of Leopard?

3. What is Maturin asked to do?

4. To where has Villiers fled?

5. What is Aubrey doing as the novel opens?

(see the answer key)

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