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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. Who is presumed lost at sea?
(a) Cornelius.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Fox.
(d) Sexton.

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

3. What does the landing party find?
(a) No one.
(b) A pirate's nest.
(c) Only about forty natives.
(d) Hundreds of native corpses.

4. To whom does the Chinese junk have to pay tribute?
(a) The Dutch.
(b) The French.
(c) No one.
(d) Pirates.

5. When must Aubrey reach his destination?
(a) Before Cornélie enters the passage.
(b) Before daybreak.
(c) Within the first couple hours of darkness.
(d) By midnight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Upon what did the ship wreck?

3. What does Aubrey realize as he sights land that evening?

4. What does Aubrey hope the Captain on the Cornélie will believe?

5. What is the effect of the aftermath of the attack?

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