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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the sailors believe when they encounter a vessel?
(a) It is a friendly vessel at an appointed rendezvous.
(b) It is a merchant vessel.
(c) It is from Brazil.
(d) It is a French frigate.

2. About what does Aubrey brood?
(a) His possible execution.
(b) Being on American soil.
(c) The loss of the use of his shattered arm.
(d) The English defeats at sea.

3. What seems a possibility to the men after a few days?
(a) They will sight land soon.
(b) They will start encountering other vessels as they have entered a shipping lane.
(c) Starvation.
(d) They are on the wrong course.

4. Of what is George Herapath proud?
(a) That his horses have seldom lost a race.
(b) That he has several flourishing plantations in the South.
(c) That he is working undercover for the United States government.
(d) That he was a loyalist during the American Revolutionary War.

5. For what does it seem Villiers looks to Maturin?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Money.
(c) Status.
(d) Rescue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Villiers to Maturin?

2. Who have all taken passage in the same boat?

3. About what does the Navy department interview Aubrey?

4. Who is Wogan's employer?

5. What helps the dehydration a little?

(see the answer key)

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