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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What goes on for weeks?
(a) The celebrating in the town.
(b) The quarantine.
(c) Caring for the ill.
(d) Repairing the Shannon.

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

4. Who is Kimber?
(a) Aubrey's business agent.
(b) Aubrey's best friend back in England.
(c) Aubrey's brother-in-law.
(d) Aubrey's cousin and lawyer.

5. Who is Beck?
(a) The owner of the Inn where Maturin is staying.
(b) A local intelligence officer.
(c) Another doctor who teaches at the medical college.
(d) The man who brought Maturin a rare plant specimen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of work has Maturin been recently engaged?

2. What does Maturin realize about Villiers?

3. What is the relationship between Harry Johnson and Villiers?

4. From where have Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers just escaped?

5. What has Villiers recently become?

(see the answer key)

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