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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ambergris?
(a) A waxy golden substance found in whale brains.
(b) What is gotten when compressing the heart of a whale.
(c) A substance rendered from boiling the blubber.
(d) A waxy golden substance found in whale intestines.

2. Where does Aubrey recruit some dozen of the new sailors on the Surprise?
(a) The local bars.
(b) Other ships.
(c) A penal colony.
(d) An insane asylum.

3. What does Martin say he has been contemplating?
(a) Settling in the West Indies.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Leaving the Navy.
(d) Suicide.

4. Who is Dundas?
(a) A longtime friend of Aubrey's.
(b) A longtime enemy of Aubrey's.
(c) Mrs. Fielding's brother.
(d) Maturin's cousin.

5. Why do whaling ships have prominent crow's nests?
(a) To facilitate spotting whales.
(b) To balance the ship when a whale carcass is attached.
(c) To signal other ships that a particular whale is a ship's find.
(d) To be able to bombard the whale from a goodly height.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is running low on the ship?

2. What does Diana request of Maturin?

3. How does Aubrey find Allen's conversation?

4. Who agrees to accept a lesser position on Surprise since he has no other options at the time?

5. Why does Maturin find Allen's conversation interesting?

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