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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 do the attackers do as they retreat?
(a) Kill their wounded.
(b) Bow to the English sailors.
(c) Burn the schooner.
(d) Drag several sailors with them.

2. What does much of Chapter 3 offer?
(a) A vivid and detailed description of the island.
(b) A recap of events in previous novels.
(c) A recap of the fight with the French frigate.
(d) A long monologue in Aubrey's head.

3. Who receives the commission for the HMS Nutmeg of Consolation?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Brown.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Fox.

4. What does Fox leave with his clerk?
(a) A thousand pounds.
(b) A sketch of the treaty territories.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A copy of the treaty.

5. How had Fox behaved?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Increasingly irrational and haughty.
(c) Knowledgeable.
(d) Intrepid.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what are the nests good?

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

3. What is Aubrey planning as he leaves port?

4. Who fixes the problem with the Nutmeg Consolation's sailing problem?

5. Who owns the Chinese junk?

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