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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Passage does his ship run down?
(a) The Straits of Pukuoni.
(b) Great Horned.
(c) Zanzibare.
(d) Salibabu.

2. Who helps Maturin to arrange Colman's transfer?
(a) Paulton.
(b) Aubrey.
(c) Owens.
(d) Blaine.

3. When must Aubrey reach his destination?
(a) Within the first couple hours of darkness.
(b) Before Cornélie enters the passage.
(c) By midnight.
(d) Before daybreak.

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

5. What is strange about the bay at Sweeting's Island?
(a) It is too quiet.
(b) It is phosphorescent.
(c) There are no birds around.
(d) The waves are breaking differently than usual.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Maturin discuss with Aubrey?

2. What does Maturin discover in the hold of the ship?

3. Why do several new men join the crew?

4. How does Aubrey modify the Nutmeg of Consolation?

5. What Dutch ship does the Nutmeg of Consolation encounter?

(see the answer key)

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