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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who threatened to denounce Dillon?
(a) Father Mangen
(b) Marshall
(c) Rickets
(d) Captain Neal

2. What type of ceremony was held once the Sophie went back to sea?
(a) One to promote Stephen
(b) One to promote Jack
(c) One to administer punishment
(d) One to demote a sailor

3. What is wrong with the new twelve-pound guns?
(a) Recoil too much
(b) Over shoot their targets
(c) Do not fit in the slots
(d) Do not work properly

4. What does before the mast mean?
(a) Raising the sails of a ship in surrender to the enemy
(b) Calling out a sailor of higher rank to compete in a duel for his rank
(c) Stripping a midshipman of his status and turning him into a common sailor
(d) Promoting a common sailor into a midshipman

5. What dismays Jack about the Midshipmen which they promise to improve?
(a) Animal identification skills
(b) Spelling skills
(c) Flogging skills
(d) Navigational exercises

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what is the crew practicing?

2. Which of the following sheets does Mowett say that the sailors will adjust first?

3. What causes Jack to jump on a chair?

4. Which of the following was not a reaction to the punishment of the new man, John Surel?

5. Why could Stephen be shot?

(see the answer key)

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