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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Maturin and Aubrey agree on about Clarissa?
(a) She is strikingly beautiful.
(b) She is rather quiet.
(c) She is no great beauty.
(d) She is rather coarse.

2. Who harpoons the creature?
(a) Awkward Davies.
(b) Brown.
(c) Cassow.
(d) Pullings.

3. What does Aubrey order regarding pursuit?
(a) To heave to.
(b) To shoot a warning shot across the other ship's bow.
(c) To turn around and ram it.
(d) To ignore it.

4. Why has Martin avoided Clarissa?
(a) He does not like her.
(b) He does not trust her.
(c) He feels too much lust for her.
(d) He promises Oakes he would not talk with her.

5. In what sort of activities does Clarissa engage in with her cousin, Edward?
(a) Business.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Sporting.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not appear at breakfast for several days?

2. What outrages Sarah and Emily?

3. What sort of reception does the Surprise receive?

4. What does the Éclair want with the Surprise?

5. What does the Surprise do?

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