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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. What is the result of Maturin's encounter with the man he offends?
(a) They exchange insults but do not draw swords.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They duel and Maturin kills the man.
(d) They duel and Maturin wounds him.

2. What will Aubrey do in the Passage?
(a) Turn into a hidden area.
(b) Find Admiral Leighton's fleet.
(c) Disguise his vessel once again.
(d) Set out net mines.

3. About what does Maturin brood?
(a) About his wife is in ill health.
(b) That he cannot search the nearby islands for new specimens.
(c) About his son's recent bout with malaria.
(d) Being poor.

4. What Dutch ship does the Nutmeg of Consolation encounter?
(a) Araetjeer.
(b) Reetjik.
(c) Roetgen.
(d) Alkmaar.

5. Where does Surprise head from Sweeting Island?
(a) The Mediterranean.
(b) Brest.
(c) England.
(d) New South Wales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Surprise head for Sweeting's Island?

2. What does Aubrey think of the Surprise?

3. What does the Cornélie's captain realize?

4. What are the two girls eventually named?

5. How does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?

(see the answer key)

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