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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. Who is aged, dissipated by alcohol, and fairly crass of speech?
(a) Alyers.
(b) Villiers.
(c) Wogan.
(d) George Herapath.

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

3. How does Aubrey respond to the Navy's questions?
(a) He is angry and shaken.
(b) Cooperative.
(c) Incredulous.
(d) Indifferent.

4. Why is the La Flèche abandoned?
(a) It is on fire.
(b) A couple sailors have the plague.
(c) It has been captured.
(d) It is overrun by rats.

5. Where does La Flèche stop to resupply?
(a) A small port on Madagascar.
(b) An Italian port.
(c) Cape Town.
(d) Bora Bora.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens the first time they sight a vessel?

2. What is full of double entendre between Johnson and Maturin?

3. What port has the HMS Leopard reached in Chapter 1?

4. On what does Aubrey instruct his midshipmen?

5. How does Villiers seem in relation to Maturin?

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