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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. How had Fox behaved?
(a) Intrepid.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Knowledgeable.
(d) Increasingly irrational and haughty.

2. Where does the French captain plant to bring on water aboard?
(a) Nil Desperandum.
(b) Pulag Ser.
(c) Deserate.
(d) Nillium.

3. Why is Maturin concerned about his wife?
(a) Because she is very ill.
(b) Because she is pregnant.
(c) Because his fortune is lost.
(d) Because her brother is trying to take her money.

4. What is the Triton?
(a) An English privateer.
(b) A Dutch merchant vessel.
(c) An American privateer.
(d) A French frigate.

5. Why does the Nutmeg of Consolation sail poorly?
(a) In order to give Cornélie the ability to keep up.
(b) Because the jib boom is too warped.
(c) Because the winds are coming out of the northwest.
(d) Because the topmast stay is broken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raffles' wife ask of Aubrey?

2. How does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?

3. How does Kesegaran get to the island?

4. Who does Aubrey's ship transport?

5. What does Aubrey hope the Captain on the Cornélie will believe?

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