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

2. What is the relationship between Harry Johnson and Villiers?
(a) They are former lovers.
(b) They are brother and sister-in-law.
(c) They are husband and wife.
(d) They do not know each other.

3. What causes Aubrey some discomfort?
(a) A letter from his wife written before she takes ill.
(b) Smith is agressively pursuing him.
(c) Villiers is flirtatious.
(d) Maturin may stay at this port for a few months.

4. 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.

5. What is Aubrey asked to do repeatedly?
(a) Introduce Villiers to the crowd.
(b) Recount the battle scene from his perspective.
(c) Show his battle wound.
(d) Have a flagon of ale on the house.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Maturin find irresistible about Villiers?

3. For what is everyone waiting anxiously?

4. What does Villiers' diamond necklace feature?

5. What goes on for weeks?

(see the answer key)

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