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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. Who is one of the crew members of the rescue vessel?
(a) Bondon.
(b) Pullings.
(c) Hollom.
(d) Howart.

2. What happens about the same time that Maturin sneezes?
(a) Butcher spies a man about to shoot at them.
(b) Surprise disappears.
(c) Surprise main mast falls over.
(d) Surprise shoots her cannons.

3. What does Surprise do at Juan Fernandez Island?
(a) Nothing; just sails past it.
(b) Refits and resupplies.
(c) Just stops long enough to get water.
(d) Makes Higgins get off the boat.

4. What does Maturin think the sound is?
(a) A whale.
(b) The sound of the seaweed flowing against the keel.
(c) A manatee-like creature.
(d) A sirocco-type wind.

5. What does Maturin tell Mrs. Horner?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) Her husband will always be impotent.
(c) Coca leaves would work as a contraceptive.
(d) Her husband is not ill physically.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Palmer?

2. What does Martin keep Butcher from doing?

3. Who is Mr. Wray?

4. Where is Surprise to meet the HMS Danaë?

5. With whom do the Fieldings meet socially?

(see the answer key)

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