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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 find irresistible about Villiers?
(a) Her laughter.
(b) Her eyes.
(c) Nothing really attracts Maturin to Villiers.
(d) Her grace.

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

3. What is the name of one of the American schooners that converges on the ship where Maturin, Aubrey and Villiers are?
(a) The Bostonian.
(b) The American Trader.
(c) The Patriot.
(d) The Liberty.

4. What has Villiers recently become?
(a) A Canadian citizen.
(b) An American citizen.
(c) An English citizen.
(d) A Brazilian citizen.

5. What happens to the crew on that schooner?
(a) They are hung as mutineers.
(b) They sink with their ship and drown.
(c) It is rescued by the other allowing the English packet to escape.
(d) They save the ship eventually and limp back to Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey fear?

2. What does the mail that arrives confirm?

3. About what do men comment concerning Villiers?

4. What does Maturin advise Aubrey?

5. What happens to one of the American schooners that delays their pursuit?

(see the answer key)

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