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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey hope to make the Port Mahon rescue appear to be?
(a) Unaided uprising of jailed men.
(b) Locals aiding the prisoners.
(c) Work of pirates.
(d) English attack.

2. In the sixth chapter, a second violent storm does what kind of damage to the H.M.S. Surprise?
(a) Two sails are torn.
(b) All the rigging is lost.
(c) Destruction of the foremost.
(d) The ship is undamaged.

3. Why is Jack Aubrey familiar with Port Mahon?
(a) He vacations there with Sophia.
(b) He once lives at Port Mahon.
(c) He meets Diana Villiers there.
(d) He visits Maturin's nearby estate.

4. How prosperous is the China fleet?
(a) They have goods and cash worth about six hundred pounds sterling.
(b) They have cargo totaling one million pounds sterling.
(c) The goods are valued at six million pounds sterling.
(d) They are carrying about three million pounds sterling.

5. Why are many of the prisoners in bad physical condition at Port Mahon's French prison?
(a) They contract cholera.
(b) There is an epidemic of typhus.
(c) They suffer at the torture rack.
(d) There are no food rations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maturin get to the gunboat after the escape from the Port Mahon prison?

2. How many of the French soldiers guarding the prisoners at Port Mahon escape harm?

3. How does Aubrey use the H.M.S. Surprise as a kind of decoy in his initial encounter with Linois' ships?

4. What fleet does the H.M.S. Surprise engage in battle with?

5. What diet addition helps the crew of the H.M.S. Surprise combat scurvy?

(see the answer key)

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