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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Villiers confide to Maturin?
(a) That she loves him.
(b) That she left all her money in the hotel in Boston in her haste to leave.
(c) That she is actually already married to Harry Johnson.
(d) That she is pregnant.

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

4. What do Villiers and Maturin deduce about the pursuit by the two schooners?
(a) That Harry Johnson is on board one of the vessels.
(b) That the American Naval intelligence is behind the pursuit.
(c) That Harry Johnson is funding the effort.
(d) They may be pirates falsely flying legitimate colours.

5. What surprises Captain Dalgliesh?
(a) That the two schooners break off so quickly.
(b) That the two schooners fall behind so quickly.
(c) That the two American schooners are so persistently following them.
(d) That one of the schooners is not flying American colours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey desperately want to do?

2. What does Aubrey refuse to do?

3. Who is Amanda Smith?

4. What does Maturin ask his fellow physicians?

5. Who is Mrs. Williams?

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