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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 happens after several days in the sun?
(a) The men start hallucinating.
(b) Dehydration starts.
(c) The men are badly burned.
(d) The men start jumping into the water to cool off.

2. Why does Christmas of 1812 pass with some gloom?
(a) Aubrey's men had expected to celebrate Christmas in England.
(b) The war is not over.
(c) The sailors are not in the thick of the war.
(d) The war is not going well.

3. What does Maturin realize?
(a) That Wogan is in Boston.
(b) That Aubrey is in grave danger.
(c) That Wogan believes the false papers to have originated with Aubrey
(d) That Aubrey is still in danger of dying.

4. What are in the letters to Sophie?
(a) Questions about news at home.
(b) Information about Aubrey's upcoming assignment.
(c) Aubrey's thoughts and reports of many current events.
(d) Questions about his new son.

5. Where does the Constitution land?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Norfolk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey strenuously argue to retain?

2. What war do they learn has erupted?

3. What seems a possibility to the men after a few days?

4. Who do Maturin and Aubrey take on in Cricket?

5. What does the vessel turn out to be?

(see the answer key)

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