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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 Aubrey desperately want to do?
(a) Retire.
(b) Return to a sea command.
(c) Be left alone.
(d) Divorce Sophie.

2. What scares Smith as she and Aubrey walk outside?
(a) A toad on the sidewalk.
(b) A rat running across the grass.
(c) The boom of a ship's gun.
(d) A raccoon walking towards them.

3. What causes Aubrey some discomfort?
(a) A letter from his wife written before she takes ill.
(b) Maturin may stay at this port for a few months.
(c) Villiers is flirtatious.
(d) Smith is agressively pursuing him.

4. What was Maturin doing in America recently?
(a) He was helping Aubrey escape.
(b) He was courting Villiers.
(c) He was a nominal prisoner.
(d) He was spying.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Broke need to do?

2. How is Villiers' appearance at the ball?

3. What is Aubrey asked to do repeatedly?

4. What does Maturin obtain for Villiers?

5. How does Smith find Aubrey to be?

(see the answer key)

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