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

2. What happens to several of Aubrey's officers?
(a) They are ill.
(b) They are promoted onto other ships.
(c) They desert.
(d) They retire.

3. Who is Midshipman Hollom?
(a) Mrs. Fielding's cousin.
(b) A sailor on board the Celebration.
(c) Mr. Fielding's brother-in-law.
(d) An aging midshipman unable to achieve promotion to Lieutenant.

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

5. From where are earwigs supposedly removed?
(a) The ears of crew members.
(b) The brains of crew members.
(c) The noses of crew members.
(d) The heart of crew members.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Wray?

2. Why does Aubrey need a schoolteacher?

3. Which two factions of the crew are doing well together?

4. Why do whaling ships have prominent crow's nests?

5. What does Sir Ives say about the USS Norfolk?

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