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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 Maturin do at the ball?
(a) Dances almost every dance.
(b) Watches other people and examines the potted plants.
(c) Sleeps in a corner chair.
(d) Escorts Villiers from group to group introducing her.

2. Who is Mrs. Williams?
(a) Aubrey's sister.
(b) Aubrey's mother-in-law.
(c) Sophie's sister.
(d) Maturin's mother.

3. Who is Amanda Smith?
(a) The daughter of the host at the ball.
(b) Matruin's cousin who is there with her mother.
(c) A young woman who dotes on Aubrey.
(d) A young woman asked to be Villiers's maid.

4. What does Captain Broke need to do?
(a) Join a blockade of the New York harbor.
(b) Supervise the repairs of the Shannon.
(c) Write his official communiqué.
(d) Return to the blockage of Washington.

5. Where is the HMS Shannon going?
(a) The West Indies.
(b) Chile.
(c) Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Maturin intend to do in Paris?

3. What does Maturin ask Villiers?

4. Why does Aubrey travel to London?

5. What happens to the original communiqué Broke writes about the Shannon's encounter?

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