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

2. What does Captain Lambert decide to do?
(a) Engage long-range canons until it is absolutely necessary to board.
(b) Try to outflank them and get into open sea where the Java is faster.
(c) Try to disable the Constitution by canon fire and then run.
(d) Close the enemy directly and take her by boarding.

3. What course of action makes sense?
(a) Staging the battle in three phases.
(b) Staying out of range of the Constitution's guns.
(c) A boarding party.
(d) Running out to open sea.

4. What does Aubrey watch in the dense fog?
(a) Maturin being tortured.
(b) Two English frigates sneak past the American blockade.
(c) A spy being hung.
(d) Two American frigates sneak past the English blockade.

5. Of what do Johnson's plantation workers comprise?
(a) Well-paid poor white farmers.
(b) He has no plantations to speak of.
(c) Well-paid freed slaves.
(d) A large group of slaves, mostly his own progeny.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Aubrey's arm?

2. Who is Pontet-Canet?

3. About how many nautical miles does the ship cover daily?

4. What does Maturin do after Java strikes her colors?

5. What is the weather like as Aubrey looks out over the harbor after the questioning?

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