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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Aubrey do in the Passage?
(a) Find Admiral Leighton's fleet.
(b) Disguise his vessel once again.
(c) Turn into a hidden area.
(d) Set out net mines.

2. About what does Maturin brood?
(a) Being poor.
(b) That he cannot search the nearby islands for new specimens.
(c) About his son's recent bout with malaria.
(d) About his wife is in ill health.

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

4. Why does the Nutmeg of Consolation sail poorly?
(a) Because the topmast stay is broken.
(b) Because the jib boom is too warped.
(c) Because the winds are coming out of the northwest.
(d) In order to give Cornélie the ability to keep up.

5. What does Maturin send to a Chinese junk?
(a) A child with a message.
(b) A stack of nests.
(c) A present.
(d) A peace offering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Triton?

2. With what does Aubrey arm the Nutmeg of Consolation?

3. Where are the nests?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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