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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maturin's final speech fare?
(a) It is a rousing success.
(b) It is delivered in an uninspiring manner and loses the audience's attention.
(c) He cuts it to five minutes and only gives a bare outline of the material.
(d) He does not deliver it as he is called back to England on an emergency.

2. What surprises Captain Dalgliesh?
(a) That the two schooners fall behind so quickly.
(b) That the two schooners break off so quickly.
(c) That one of the schooners is not flying American colours.
(d) That the two American schooners are so persistently following them.

3. What goes on for weeks?
(a) Repairing the Shannon.
(b) The celebrating in the town.
(c) The quarantine.
(d) Caring for the ill.

4. For what is everyone waiting anxiously?
(a) The coming of the new ambassador from Germany.
(b) The coming of the new ambassador from the United States.
(c) For Captain Broke's wounds to heal.
(d) For the return of two packets with further orders for Aubrey and Maturin.

5. From where have Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers just escaped?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Boston.
(c) Brazil.
(d) An uprising in the West Indies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What scares Smith as she and Aubrey walk outside?

2. What is the relationship between Maturin and the commander at Grimsholm?

3. How does Maturin prepare for his mission to Grimsholm?

4. What do Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers do to effect a return to England?

5. What do Villiers and Maturin deduce about the pursuit by the two schooners?

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