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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 find at Villiers' apartments?
(a) Her cat needing food.
(b) The place had been ransacked.
(c) A stack of bills to pay.
(d) The place was empty.

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

3. What kind of storm does Aubrey run into at the start of his voyage?
(a) A typhoon.
(b) A tropical hurricane.
(c) A thunder storm.
(d) A northwestern gale.

4. Who pursues the Leopard?
(a) A French opponent.
(b) Barbary coast pirates.
(c) A Dutch opponent.
(d) No one.

5. Who is Stephen Maturin?
(a) The Duke of Glasson.
(b) A renowned surgeon and natural scientist.
(c) A con artist who sells Aubrey a lame horse.
(d) Sohpie's husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maturin say yes to the request by naval intelligence?

2. Who is Diana Villiers?

3. With whom does Maturin think Villiers might have taken up again?

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

5. What does Maturin think has affected the rats?

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