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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin do as Aubrey is being reinstated?
(a) Go see Sir Joseph.
(b) Visit his wife.
(c) Try to get his banking situation in order.
(d) Go to his old medical school to find a book.

2. What kind of response does Diane have to sailing?
(a) Lively.
(b) Extremely fast and responsive but rides too low.
(c) Sluggish.
(d) About ordinary.

3. Who is the assistant surgeon on the Surprise?
(a) Thomas Moss.
(b) Stewart Blaginton.
(c) Nathaniel Martin.
(d) Joseph Geller.

4. Why is the Surprise going to her destination port when she leaves in Chapter 2?
(a) To pick up a paying load.
(b) To drop off some high paying passengers.
(c) To interfere in political developments.
(d) To pursue a French battle fleet.

5. What have the midshipmen been doing with their journals on spherical trigonometry?
(a) Copying each other.
(b) Throwning sheets of it overboard.
(c) Burning some of its sheets.
(d) Tearing out the sheets.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Surprise catch the ship in question #32?

2. How does Fox act towards Maturin after the affair in question #154?

3. Who is the first lieutenant aboard the Diane?

4. Why does Aubrey hold classes in seamanship and navigation for the midshipmen aboard?

5. Why does Fox enlist a group of British diplomats to accompany him to Pulo Prabang?

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