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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who gave Villiers the diamond necklace?
(a) Villiers' deceased husband.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Villiers's deceased fiance.

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

5. In what recent battle does Aubrey participate as a combatant?
(a) Aubrey has not been in a battle recently.
(b) A battle in Washington between Johnson's spies and Maturin.
(c) The battle between the USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon.
(d) The battle between the USS Constitution and the HMS Shannon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Aubrey become?

2. What is Harry Johnson's financial situation?

3. What is spreading like wildfire in the town where Shannon is docking?

4. What goes on for weeks?

5. What does Villiers' diamond necklace feature?

(see the answer key)

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