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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 Sir Joseph Blain discuss with Maturin after the lecture?
(a) Maturin's illicit affair.
(b) Maturin's identity being disclosed.
(c) French breaking the blockade.
(d) Their trip to South Africa.

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

3. What is the probable fate of many prisoners freed along with Maturin?
(a) They swim to a nearby island.
(b) They die of torture injuries.
(c) They join the crew of H.M.S. Lively.
(d) They are recaptured and put to death.

4. To what kind of lecture does Maturin go to in Chapter one?
(a) A lecture on insects.
(b) Bird watching lecture.
(c) A lecture on human anatomy.
(d) Political lecture.

5. How does Maturin get to the gunboat after the escape from the Port Mahon prison?
(a) He is strapped to a board and carried.
(b) He walks the long way around the island.
(c) He ride a horse left by Maragall.
(d) He swims across the harbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Aubrey first go ashore at Minorca?

2. In chapter one, why is Diana Villiers' recent relationship with a man such a scandal?

3. What does Maragall arrange to ease Aubrey's arrival at Port Mahon?

4. Why does the First Lord's mention of Stephen Maturin shock and dismay Sir Joseph Blain?

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

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