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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. Why do several new men join the crew?
(a) Aubrey does not hire any new men.
(b) To get a ride back to England.
(c) To help as prize crew.
(d) To bring the vessel to full strength.

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

3. After whom is Aubrey's new ship named?
(a) A spice his wife loves.
(b) No one.
(c) A horse he once owned.
(d) The Sultan of Pulo Prabang.

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

5. Who does Maturin encounter that he knows on the trip on the junk?
(a) One of the sailors on the French frigate.
(b) One of the sailors on the French privateer.
(c) One of the Chinese.
(d) One of the pirates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where departs for Batavia in one of the ship's boats?

2. Upon what did the ship wreck?

3. Why are the sailors able to salvage much of the ship's contents?

4. How had Fox behaved?

5. To whom does the Chinese junk have to pay tribute?

(see the answer key)

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