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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Passage does his ship run down?
(a) Salibabu.
(b) The Straits of Pukuoni.
(c) Great Horned.
(d) Zanzibare.

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

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

4. How long does it take to repulse the attackers?
(a) Three days.
(b) Twenty-four hours.
(c) A week.
(d) Several hours.

5. Who is Lieutenant Jean-Pierrre Dumesnil?
(a) The commander of the Triton.
(b) An acquaintance of Aubrey's.
(c) The commander of the French man-o-war.
(d) A double agent and friend of Maturin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the unnamed island?

3. How had Fox behaved?

4. About what does Maturin brood?

5. Why are the sailors able to salvage much of the ship's contents?

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