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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 does Aubrey have the squadron do continually?
(a) Practice gunnery and seamanship.
(b) Change crews.
(c) Maintain a speed of 12 knots.
(d) Maintain black out at night.

2. In what type of home does Captain Aubrey live?
(a) A farmhouse.
(b) A castle.
(c) A country cottage.
(d) A townhouse.

3. What kind of ship is the Néréide?
(a) A sloop.
(b) A battle cruiser.
(c) A forty-eight gun Longship.
(d) A thirty-six gun frigate.

4. What ship has Aubrey been given to command?
(a) The longship Victoria.
(b) The sloop Nadine.
(c) The frigate Boadicea.
(d) The firgate Venus.

5. Which vessel is the flagship of the squadron?
(a) Leopard.
(b) Raisonable.
(c) Boadicea.
(d) Nereide.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aubrey respond to Bertie's orders?

2. What does Sophie ask Maturin to do?

3. Why is Aubrey receiving only half pay?

4. What does Maturin do on the first island on which he goes ashore?

5. Who has been captured?

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