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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin obtain for Villiers?
(a) A maid servant.
(b) A room at a lady's boarding house.
(c) A certificate of safe passage.
(d) An engagement ring.

2. What is Harry Johnson's financial situation?
(a) He is penniless but is hoping for an investment in a slaver vessel to turn that around.
(b) He is extremely wealthy.
(c) He is almost penniless having spent his fortune funding the revolutionary war.
(d) His financial status is not mentioned.

3. In what type of work has Maturin been recently engaged?
(a) Teaching at the medical school.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Writing a novel.
(d) Collecting specimens.

4. About what do men comment concerning Villiers?
(a) Her tendency to flitter about.
(b) Her sad countenance.
(c) Her exceptional beauty.
(d) Her reluctance to engage in social conversation.

5. What does Captain Broke need to do?
(a) Write his official communiqué.
(b) Return to the blockage of Washington.
(c) Join a blockade of the New York harbor.
(d) Supervise the repairs of the Shannon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Diligence?

2. Who is Kimber?

3. What is notable about Harry Johnson?

4. What causes Aubrey some discomfort?

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

(see the answer key)

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