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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 does the scout report?
(a) A safe landing is not possible.
(b) There is a quarantine due to an outbreak of the plague.
(c) A safe landing is possible at low tide.
(d) The Surprise cannot get close, but a boat can get within 100 yards of shore.

2. What does the crew catch?
(a) A great white shark.
(b) A swordfish.
(c) A small grey whale.
(d) A dolphin.

3. Approximately when was Clarissa born?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1787.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1796.

4. How does narration characterize the wedding dinner?
(a) Not a complete catastrophe.
(b) An absolute catastrophe.
(c) A wonderfully entertaining evening.
(d) An evening of alternating rancor and delight.

5. What does Clarissa relate in a monotone?
(a) The initiation rites of a group to which she used to belong.
(b) A poem she wrote.
(c) A recipe for keeping the bugs off a person.
(d) Her life's story.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Martin avoided Clarissa?

2. How is Moahu shaped?

3. What does Aubrey realize about his crew?

4. What does Clarissa think of Annamooka?

5. What infuriates Aubrey about the problems Davidge and West have?

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