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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen ask Aubrey?
(a) To allow Paddy on board.
(b) To borrow Ringle.
(c) To not accompany Jack on this assignment.
(d) To bring his daughter on board.

2. How long has it been since Maturin has seen Brigid?
(a) He just saw her about two weeks earlier.
(b) He has never seen her.
(c) A couple years.
(d) A few months.

3. What does Aubrey point out through his telescope?
(a) The young age of the sailors on many of his ships.
(b) A new star that Aubrey just found.
(c) A new star Aubrey has just found.
(d) Several of the ships of his new squadron.

4. How is Captain Thomas' ship described?
(a) Average.
(b) Neat but dirty.
(c) Spotless and orderly.
(d) Disordered.

5. How do Dundas and Aubrey know each other?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They grew up in the same village.
(c) They served together as young midshipmen.
(d) They attended Oxford together.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Aubrey be receiving for his next assignment?

2. What does Jack do in the channel when they arrive in Freetown?

3. What does Maturin talk about most concerning his time on the Ringle?

4. What do Aubrey's three children race to tell him?

5. On whose ship is Whewell?

(see the answer key)

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