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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. What does Aubrey desperately want to do?
(a) Retire.
(b) Return to a sea command.
(c) Be left alone.
(d) Divorce Sophie.

2. Who is Jagiello?
(a) One of the sailmen.
(b) A pirate for whom Ariel has hired for advising.
(c) A character in a Shakespeare play that Maturin is reading.
(d) A young officer of the Swedish service.

3. What does Maturin buy Villiers?
(a) Passage back to America.
(b) A pearl necklace.
(c) Passage back to Brazil.
(d) An expensive gown.

4. How does Aubrey find his home?
(a) Nearly vacant.
(b) Completely deserted.
(c) Bustling in anticipation of his return.
(d) Not burned as an earlier report said.

5. What does Maturin advise Aubrey?
(a) To send his children to boarding school.
(b) To borrow money from his wealthy father-in-law.
(c) To take the second vessel carrying the recovering wounded.
(d) To not fret over things he cannot control.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Aubrey become?

2. Who is Hyde?

3. What is the name of one of the American schooners that converges on the ship where Maturin, Aubrey and Villiers are?

4. Where is Ariel headed?

5. What is Aubrey asked to do repeatedly?

(see the answer key)

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