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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 does Aubrey turn tail and run?
(a) He learns the gunpowder on his ship is wet.
(b) He sees a French man-o-war in port also.
(c) His bluff has failed.
(d) He learns that the Cornélie has more guns than he was told.

2. What does Raffles' wife ask of Aubrey?
(a) To hire her husband for this one trip.
(b) Nothing.
(c) To take aboard two young midshipmen.
(d) To take her along to go to England.

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

4. Who does Maturin spy one morning when he wakes up?
(a) A Dyak woman.
(b) What he thinks is an angel.
(c) A French privateer approaching the bay.
(d) A pirate.

5. What is critical after the attack?
(a) Food supplies are critically low.
(b) A way to find more wood for cooking fires.
(c) A way to retrieve the tools.
(d) A way to summon help.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?

3. What type of armament does the Cornélie possess?

4. What does Maturin do to supplement the food supply?

5. To where does the junk take the British sailors?

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