View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Cornélie do?
(a) Sinks.
(b) Gets away.
(c) Blows up.
(d) Strikes her colors.

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

3. Why has a Dutch-built ship sunk?
(a) It was in a fire fight with an English man-o-war.
(b) It hit a reef.
(c) It was too old for the sea.
(d) It carried the plague.

4. What effect does the method Aubrey uses to arm his ship have?
(a) It makes the ship lighter and therefore faster.
(b) It has a heavy punch up close but no long-range accuracy.
(c) It enables more men in the rigging to pick off boarding parties.
(d) It covers both short and long-range possibilites.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin send to a Chinese junk?

2. What does much of Chapter 3 offer?

3. What does Cornélie continue to do?

4. What does the crew want to name their new passengers?

5. Who does Aubrey's ship transport?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 291 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample