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

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

3. What does Aubrey do with the cannons?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sink the attacker's boat.
(c) Set up a defensive parameter.
(d) Shoot after the retreating attackers to no avail.

4. What does Maturin want to do about the Cornélie?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Pursue and destroy it.
(c) Change its name to something that sounds less French.
(d) Make an agreement with the captain of it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Triton?

2. Who appears on the horizon?

3. What does Aubrey admire about the Captain of the Marines?

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

5. Who does Maturin spy one morning when he wakes up?

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