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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is special about Sundays and debts in early 1800s England?
(a) Sunday is a debtor's holiday.
(b) Sunday is when interest on loans is compounded.
(c) Sunday is when prisoners are allowed home visits.
(d) Sundays are when debts come due.

2. How successful is Aubrey's message of flashes when he first gets to Minorca?
(a) He misreads the response.
(b) He draws attention of the French.
(c) He gets no replay from Maturin.
(d) He gets Maturin's signals back .

3. Where does H.M.S. Lively help run a frigate-picket blockade in chapter two?
(a) Off the coast of Toulon.
(b) French colonies in the New World.
(c) French port of Le Havre.
(d) Near the coast of India.

4. At the beginning of the book, with whom is Dr. Stephen Maturin recently involved romantically?
(a) Sophie's sister.
(b) Diana Villiers.
(c) A secret romantic interest.
(d) Sophie.

5. With what kind of communication does Aubrey augment the initial method of light flashes at Minorca?
(a) He abandons communication.
(b) He gives native boy a written message.
(c) He leaves private marks on shore.
(d) He leaves a series of rock piles on the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. Captain Jack Aubrey leaves the blockade when ordered to go where?

2. What does Aubrey leave on the H.M.S. Surprise as a token of an earlier encounter?

3. By what means does Aubrey sneak away from the Grapes in order to meet with Sophie?

4. How long does the rescue of Maturin take?

5. After the prison rescue, how long do Aubrey and his men wait before leaving Port Mahon?

(see the answer key)

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