View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who once gave Mrs. Fielding passage aboard his ship?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Hughes.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Phipps.

3. What does Maturin do pro bono?
(a) Gathers intelligence for the British.
(b) Performs surgery for local indigents.
(c) Sends specimens to the British Naturlist Society.
(d) Nothing.

4. What is Midshipman Hollom's situation on Gibraltar?
(a) Works for the Fieldings.
(b) In the brig.
(c) Supervises a refit project for the Celebration.
(d) Penniless.

5. What does Hollom begin that is scandalous?
(a) Reading Tom Jones.
(b) A sexual affair with Mrs. Horner.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Reading a novel considered to be evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey feel compelled to do concerning Hollom?

2. What is running low on the ship?

3. What monumental task must Aubrey undertake?

4. Why does Aubrey need a schoolteacher?

5. What region does the Surprise pass through that is considered difficult?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 253 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample