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

2. What does Maturin think poverty may affect?
(a) His family's estate.
(b) His marriage.
(c) His son's inheritance.
(d) His son's education.

3. Who organizes the shipwrecked men's camp?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Aubrey.
(c) Welby.
(d) Martin.

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

5. What happens to Maturin when the coca leaves are all gone?
(a) He suffers withdrawal.
(b) He decides to brew some gin.
(c) He has no means of medicating crew injuries and he's mad.
(d) He is relieved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men do for entertainment?

2. For what are the nests good?

3. Upon what did the ship wreck?

4. For what is Grimshaw and Killick known?

5. Why are Maturin and Martin combing the island despite the illness?

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