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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. When does Maturin bleed the entire crew?
(a) When the ship enters the tropics.
(b) When one man comes down with typhus.
(c) When one man seems to have the plague.
(d) When one of the wives comes down with malaria.

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

3. Why does Horner seek a consultation with Maturin?
(a) To ask sexual advice.
(b) To talk about Hollom flirting with his wife.
(c) To cure his impotence.
(d) To ask Maturin to care for his wife if something happens to him.

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

5. Why does Aubrey need a schoolteacher?
(a) He has no need of a school teacher.
(b) He is ferrying a group of families to the West Indies.
(c) He has many young midshipmen.
(d) He is bringing two of his sons on board for his next assignment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the mission when Mr. Allen sailed with Colnett?

2. Who commands Surprise?

3. From where is Padeen Coleman?

4. What does Dundas suggest to Aubrey?

5. Who is Higgins?

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