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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How experienced is Maturin in cricket?
(a) He is not very skilled but likes playing the game.
(b) He led his team at Oxford to victory.
(c) He has no experience.
(d) He plays whenever he is in a port.

2. How does Maturin arouse humor among the cricket players and audience?
(a) He trips on the way around the field.
(b) He hits the wicket in the wrong direction.
(c) He smashes the wicket to pieces.
(d) He faces the wrong way.

3. What has been the outcome of those encounters?
(a) The Americans have been decisively victorious.
(b) The Americans and English have split victories.
(c) Aubrey is unsure of the outcomes.
(d) Nothing decisive has been accomplished.

4. How does what the Leopard men do help the Java?
(a) They are not just dead weight.
(b) They free up Java's men to board the Constitution.
(c) It relieves some marines for small-arms work in the fighting tops.
(d) They can concentrate on long-distance warfare.

5. Why does Maturin leave the cricket match?
(a) He is feeling ill.
(b) He has to treat a crewmember who is cut up in a fight.
(c) He is called away to assist in preparation of some documents.
(d) He is feeling the need for some laudenum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what do Johnson's plantation workers comprise?

2. Of what is George Herapath proud?

3. Of what does George Herapath assure Maturin?

4. How does Villiers seem in relation to Maturin?

5. How many men are in Aubrey's life boat?

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