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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey admire about the Captain of the Marines?
(a) His droll sense of humor.
(b) His ability at whist.
(c) His efficiency and devotion to duty.
(d) His physique.

2. Where is Aubrey when Maturin awakes from his illness?
(a) In a fevered coma.
(b) At the construction site.
(c) Investigating a shipwreck on the other side of the island.
(d) Swimmingl.

3. To whom does Maturin give bribes?
(a) The chief of the Dyaks.
(b) A friend.
(c) A French captain.
(d) The chief at Pulo Prabang.

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

5. What does Fox leave with his clerk?
(a) A sketch of the treaty territories.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A thousand pounds.
(d) A copy of the treaty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin do to supplement the food supply?

2. What does Cornélie do in response to Nutmeg's heading out to sea?

3. Who does Maturin spy one morning when he wakes up?

4. Whose nests does Maturin find?

5. What does the Cornélie do?

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