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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is going to happen to the Leopard?
(a) It is being scuttled.
(b) It is being refitted with larger canons.
(c) It is being converted to a transport.
(d) It is being sold to a private merchant.

2. What is going to happen to the Leopard's crew?
(a) They will stay with the Leopard.
(b) They will sail back to England and be assigned to other ships.
(c) They will be disbursed among the Admiral's other ships.
(d) The Admiral has not yet decided.

3. Who is Pontet-Canet?
(a) One of the main commanders in the French and Indian wars.
(b) A French officer on board the Constitutioni.
(c) The steward of the Constitution.
(d) A Frenchman Maturin has seen before.

4. What is in the Java's favor?
(a) The Java has larger guns.
(b) The Java has two extra sails.
(c) The Java holds many, many more men than Constitution.
(d) Aubrey is on board the Java.

5. Over what does Maturin agonize when on board the La Flèche?
(a) How to categorize some of the odd species he has collected.
(b) His numerous natural history specimens.
(c) What he will tell his wife who did not think he was returning to her.
(d) Why he made such a fool of himself on the cricket field.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are in the letters to Sophie?

2. What do Aubrey and the Leopard crew volunteer to do?

3. What war do they learn has erupted?

4. How experienced is Maturin in cricket?

5. What does Captain Lambert decide to do?

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