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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What good news does Surprise receive?
(a) Dutch merchants are running from the Americans.
(b) French navy lost a huge battle recently.
(c) USS Constitution has been captured.
(d) USS Norfolk is behind schedule.

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

3. Why do whaling ships have prominent crow's nests?
(a) To balance the ship when a whale carcass is attached.
(b) To facilitate spotting whales.
(c) To be able to bombard the whale from a goodly height.
(d) To signal other ships that a particular whale is a ship's find.

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

5. In what condition is the pilot when Surprise is leaving?
(a) Drunk.
(b) Normal.
(c) Very ill.
(d) There is no pilot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Maturin and Martin spend their days?

2. What does Aubrey plan to grab to save Maturin?

3. When does a strange wailing begin?

4. What is Maturin's position on board the Surprise?

5. What monumental task must Aubrey undertake?

(see the answer key)

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