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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are sailors paid?
(a) According to their time at sea for each trip.
(b) According to how many whales they have killed.
(c) According to how many whales they have killed and captured.
(d) According to their rank.

2. What do Pollard and Daniel Russell, the captain of the Aurora, discuss in Chapter 4?
(a) The discovery of a new whaling ground.
(b) The discovery of other whaling boats off the coast.
(c) The remaining time of the Essex's trip.
(d) The remaining time of the Aurora's trip.

3. When did English settlers begin arriving in Nantucket?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1635.
(c) 1695.
(d) 1653.

4. How many miles does it take the crew to set and trim the sails of the Essex?
(a) Less than nine.
(b) More than eleven.
(c) More than nine.
(d) More than ten.

5. How old is Thomas Nickerson when he first boards the Essex?
(a) Eighteen years old.
(b) Fourteen years old.
(c) Sixteen years old.
(d) Fifteen years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many whale boats does the crew of the Essex lose after the first encounter with two whales in Chapter 3?

2. After having little luck off the coast of Chile, where does the Essex begin experiencing some success?

3. How is Pollard informed to set sail?

4. What Ecuadorian city does the Essex stop at during September in Chapter 4?

5. In 1810, how many women over the age of twenty- three are widowed?

(see the answer key)

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