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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 Maturin find when he goes to gather the nests?
(a) He cannot find them again.
(b) A wounded Dyak.
(c) Some Chinese children gathering the nests.
(d) The nests had all been put to the torch by the attackers.

2. What is critical after the attack?
(a) A way to retrieve the tools.
(b) Food supplies are critically low.
(c) A way to find more wood for cooking fires.
(d) A way to summon help.

3. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?
(a) Rate them as midshipmen.
(b) Refuse to take them on board.
(c) Put them in the brig.
(d) Turns them before the mast.

4. To whom does Maturin deliver the treaty?
(a) The chief of the Dyaks.
(b) The Admiral of the Eastern fleet.
(c) The Governor.
(d) The Governor of Tahiti.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men do for entertainment?

2. Who is presumed lost at sea?

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

4. What does Fox leave with his clerk?

5. Why has a Dutch-built ship sunk?

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