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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entry 3: June 23, 1830.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Spanish explorer who is the source of the only recorded description of the tribes people the crew will be picking up?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Marco Garcia.
(c) Rafael Garcia.
(d) Garcia Rafael.

2. What is another name for the crew's sleeping quarters, according to Rutherford's entry?
(a) Barracks.
(b) Orlop.
(c) Berthing area.
(d) Dunlop.

3. What is the total value of the ship's entire cargo?
(a) $8,858.
(b) $8,885.
(c) $8,888.
(d) $8,585.

4. When is the only time Cringle seems to relax?
(a) When he is alone on watch.
(b) When he is sleeping.
(c) When he is with others.
(d) When he is alone on watch or reading.

5. What is the name of the sailor Rutherford meets?
(a) Squidd.
(b) Squibb.
(c) Tommy.
(d) Meadows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cringle have a sixth sense about?

2. How old does Squibb tell Rutherford he is?

3. What does Rutherford eventually take up as a career?

4. How much pay does Falcon offer Rutherford (an offer that Rutherford accepts) to remain part of the crew?

5. What did Reverend Chandler, Rutherford's master, try to teach him while he was growing up on the plantation?

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