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

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

3. Why is Maturin concerned about his wife?
(a) Because she is pregnant.
(b) Because she is very ill.
(c) Because her brother is trying to take her money.
(d) Because his fortune is lost.

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

5. What passes through the area?
(a) Two French frigates.
(b) No one.
(c) A group of Malaysians.
(d) A sudden storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will depart about the Cornélie?

2. What does Maturin play up?

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

4. What is the name of their ship that wrecked?

5. To whom does Maturin deliver the treaty?

(see the answer key)

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