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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 does Aubrey contemplate as they near the place they expect to encounter the French?
(a) If the cannons were the best choice.
(b) The impending combat.
(c) Whether he is within international waters.
(d) If the carronades were the best choice.

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

3. About what does Maturin brood?
(a) That he cannot search the nearby islands for new specimens.
(b) Being poor.
(c) About his wife is in ill health.
(d) About his son's recent bout with malaria.

4. What is one attribute of the guests at a dinner party Maturin attends?
(a) They are mostly anti-Irish.
(b) They drink huge quantities of alcohol.
(c) They are rude.
(d) They have no table manners.

5. What are his carpenters and seamen begun building?
(a) A schooner.
(b) Huts for shelter.
(c) A new hull to patch the ship.
(d) A way to haul the ship up off the ocean floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls adopt as pets?

2. How long does it take to repulse the attackers?

3. Why do the sailors find Kesegaran interesting?

4. How do the girls adapt to ship life?

5. Upon what sort of variables is Aubrey's plan contingent?

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