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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 Margall tell Aubrey about Maturin's status on Minorca?
(a) Maturin is tortured and killed.
(b) Maturin is reassigned by the British.
(c) Maturin is imprisoned and tortured.
(d) Maturin can no longer be trusted by the British.

2. When supplies run low on H.M.S. Lively, what do some of the crew resort to eating?
(a) Some resort to cannibalism.
(b) They eat beetles and other insects.
(c) They chew on leather strapping.
(d) They eat rats from the hold.

3. Whom do Aubrey and his men plan to free at Port Mahon?
(a) Chinese prisoners.
(b) Sailors captured the night before.
(c) All prisoners held by the French.
(d) Only Maturin.

4. In chapter two, where is Maturin imprisoned?
(a) Stockade near Paris.
(b) Port Mahon.
(c) On a French ship.
(d) In London.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In chapter one, under what circumstances do Sir Joseph Blain, Admiral Harte, and various other political and military figures meet?

4. To what kind of lecture does Maturin go to in Chapter one?

5. When Aubrey first goes ashore on Minorca, who approaches him and wants to talk about Maturin?

(see the answer key)

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