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

2. What have the French been doing on the ocean that is a problem?
(a) Crossing the channel.
(b) Blowing up British merchant ships.
(c) Blockading England's shores.
(d) Capturing British Indiamen.

3. What does Pym have several English ships do?
(a) Go for more ships.
(b) Go into the harbor to destroy the French.
(c) Wait for Aubrey.
(d) Go around to the other side of the island.

4. What happens to the Raisonable after the squadron returns to Cape Town?
(a) It's sent to French Guinea.
(b) It is retired.
(c) It's sent to England.
(d) It is scraped.

5. What do the sailors call a dugong?
(a) A mermaid.
(b) A dragon.
(c) A merman.
(d) A sea serpent.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what type of mathematical problem is Aubrey working?

2. About what abstract human characteristic does Maturin ponder?

3. How would Aubrey describe his wife's mother?

4. Who will crew the two captured French ships?

5. What happens to two English frigates?

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