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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. What does Higgins begin to do?
(a) Practice superstitious mumble-jumbo.
(b) Come down hard on his crew even when they are doing things correctly.
(c) Sleep through his duties.
(d) Give Aubrey wrinkled uniforms.

3. Why does Aubrey contrive to cross the equator on Sunday?
(a) He does not contrive to do so; it just happens.
(b) So the crew will not party.
(c) So they will not be in port until the next week.
(d) It is considered good luck to do so.

4. Who recognizes Aubrey and Maturin on the ship the Surprise encounters?
(a) Several of the enlisted crew.
(b) Some of the officers.
(c) The French captain.
(d) No one.

5. What does the crew think Jonah will do?
(a) Bring bad luck on the crew.
(b) Not perform his share of the work.
(c) Hurt them through incompetence.
(d) Steal from them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What island does the Surprise sail past?

2. How does Aubrey find Allen's conversation?

3. Where is Surprise to meet the HMS Danaë?

4. What does Dundas suggest to Aubrey?

5. What do Maturin and Martin do after readying for their next assignment?

(see the answer key)

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