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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aubrey's main personal problem?
(a) He is deep in debt.
(b) He has a terminal disease.
(c) He is losing his memory.
(d) His wife is sick.

2. What kind of birds flocks over the blockade?
(a) Quail.
(b) Seagulls.
(c) Crows.
(d) Cranes.

3. Who is wounded at the clandestine rendezvous?
(a) Sosa.
(b) Graham.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Maturin.

4. Why is Thornton angry with Aubrey when he returns to the blockade?
(a) He did not engage the French.
(b) He violated neutrality rules.
(c) He was late returning.
(d) He tried to rile up the French.

5. What does Yeats say will ruin him?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Salt water.
(c) Impressments.
(d) Tobacco spit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aubrey spend a small fortune of his own money on something for the ship?

2. Why do the officers on the Worcester dislike Maturin?

3. Why do the crew not want to deliver people to destinations?

4. Why does Maturin live away from his wife when he is in town?

5. What does Thornton tell captains in the blockade to do once the French have broken through?

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