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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 want to do about the Cornélie?
(a) Change its name to something that sounds less French.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Make an agreement with the captain of it.
(d) Pursue and destroy it.

2. Why do the sailors find Kesegaran interesting?
(a) She wears European men's clothing.
(b) She is seven feet tall.
(c) She is sexually accomodating.
(d) She strips naked when hiking.

3. Upon what did the ship wreck?
(a) An iceberg.
(b) A submerged vessel that wrecked earlier.
(c) A submerged reef.
(d) Rocks.

4. What are his carpenters and seamen begun building?
(a) Huts for shelter.
(b) A new hull to patch the ship.
(c) A schooner.
(d) A way to haul the ship up off the ocean floor.

5. What suddenly lands on the beach?
(a) A huge number of jelly fish.
(b) A vast war canoe.
(c) A whale.
(d) Pieces of the French privateer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maturin deliver the treaty?

2. For what is Grimshaw and Killick known?

3. What is critical after the attack?

4. What does Maturin find when he goes to gather the nests?

5. What do the attackers do as they retreat?

(see the answer key)

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