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

2. Why does Maturin collapse?
(a) He has contracted a tropical fever.
(b) He drinks bad whiskey.
(c) He swam too fast getting away from a shark.
(d) He ran too far in the hot sun.

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

4. What does Maturin spend his time and money doing?
(a) Putting in medical supplies.
(b) Buying specimen jars and preservatives.
(c) Various machinations to deny the French resupply at various ports.
(d) Learning how to play cricket.

5. Who attacks the sailors?
(a) Pirates.
(b) No one.
(c) The French.
(d) A tribe of warriors called Dyaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose nests does Maturin find?

2. What does Maturin send to a Chinese junk?

3. What does Maturin want to do about the Cornélie?

4. How far do they figure they will have to sail to find assistance?

5. What does much of Chapter 3 offer?

(see the answer key)

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