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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Kimber write Aubrey?
(a) Aubrey needs to come home as his wife is dying.
(b) Kimber has exhausted Aubrey's funds with little to show for it.
(c) Aubrey's home burns to the ground but his wife and children are alive.
(d) Aubrey's wife has died.

2. What does the town do when the Shannon arrives?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) Warns it off because the town is quarantined.
(c) Asks Aubrey if the war is really over.
(d) Erupts in a tumultuous celebration.

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

4. What is spreading like wildfire in the town where Shannon is docking?
(a) News of the end of the war.
(b) The plague.
(c) News of the HMS Shannon's victory.
(d) The flu.

5. What has Aubrey become?
(a) Restless.
(b) Idle.
(c) A local hero.
(d) Somewhat of a recluse.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what recent battle does Aubrey participate as a combatant?

2. What does Maturin ask Villiers?

3. Where are the wounded transferred?

4. What was Maturin doing in America recently?

5. What is Aubrey asked to do repeatedly?

(see the answer key)

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