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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 hope to do some day?
(a) Study the fauna at the Galapagos.
(b) Have a large enough vessel to sail around the world.
(c) Find a native wife at one of the tropical islands.
(d) Visit both places his patients have been.

2. What is Aubrey doing as he is standing on the quarterdeck?
(a) Talking to Maturin about what they will do when they reach the West Indies.
(b) Contemplating the previous weeks' events.
(c) Talking to the officer accused of cheating.
(d) Watching a punishment of 20 lashes being carried out.

3. How is Moahu shaped?
(a) Diamond.
(b) Like an hourglass.
(c) Like a perfect circle.
(d) Triangular.

4. To whom does Aubrey give his word that there are no stowaways on board?
(a) The navy admiral stationed in Port Jackson.
(b) The governor.
(c) The military police.
(d) The sheriff.

5. Who smuggles Clarissa on board?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Midshipman William Oakes.
(c) Tom Pullings.
(d) Maturin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can they not visit the island that Maturin had hoped to see?

2. Why had Padeen been at a penal colony?

3. For what does the Surprise ready?

4. What does the Éclair want with the Surprise?

5. What is the status of the Trulove?

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