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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8, 9, and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Surprise rendezvous unexpectedly?
(a) The USS Constitution.
(b) A French privateer.
(c) The HMS Dagger.
(d) Several Indiamen.

2. With whom do the Fieldings meet socially?
(a) Hollister.
(b) Phipps.
(c) Martinique.
(d) Aubrey.

3. What rumors once existed about Mrs. Fielding?
(a) She was a British undercover agent.
(b) She was a French spy.
(c) She was having an affair with Nelson.
(d) She was having an affair with Aubrey.

4. How does Surprise get off the mud bank?
(a) They lighten the ship and wait for the tide to come in.
(b) The hole in the hull is repaired and the water is pumped out which allows her to float off it.
(c) The crew has to dig her out.
(d) She is pulled.

5. What does Wray constantly work to do?
(a) Finding new species of plants in the West Indies.
(b) Ferret out double spies for British intelligence.
(c) Support Maturin.
(d) Destroy Maturin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Horner ask of Maturin?

2. Who commands Surprise?

3. What does Dundas suggest to Aubrey?

4. Where does Aubrey spy the ship he is chasing?

5. How does Maturin relax?

(see the answer key)

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