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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. What does Mrs. Horner claim about her husband?
(a) He is suicidal.
(b) He has syphilis.
(c) He is having an affair with another wife on the ship.
(d) He will kill her if he learns she is pregnant.

2. What does Sir Ives say about the USS Norfolk?
(a) It is stranded in Greenland.
(b) It is on a mission to enlist France's aid against the British.
(c) It is prowling the waters of South America.
(d) It is on a mission to destroy British whalers.

3. What do Maturin and Martin find fascinating about Juan Fernandez Island?
(a) The immunity the natives seem to have to certain diseases.
(b) A plant that has sedating properties.
(c) The geology of the island.
(d) The flora and fauna.

4. What joins Surprise as they are slipping through the islands?
(a) An Indiaman.
(b) A longboat.
(c) A few native canoes.
(d) A French privateer.

5. Who recovers from a severe beating?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Mowett.
(c) Bonden.
(d) Martin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Horner ask of Maturin?

2. What information does Allen have about whales?

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

4. The tension on the island is between _______________.

5. From where are earwigs supposedly removed?

(see the answer key)

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