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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. In what is the crew of the Surprise to intervene?
(a) Some illegal rum and spice running.
(b) The French blockade of the Straights of Gibraltar.
(c) A minor civil war.
(d) Some slave trading.

2. Who insults Maturin one evening?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Clarissa.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Davidge.

3. How is the dinner conversation?
(a) Strained and stilted.
(b) Ambiguous.
(c) Lively.
(d) Crude.

4. What does Aubrey note among the crew?
(a) Despondency.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Much merriment and amusement.

5. Who rules the north end of Moahu?
(a) Kalahua.
(b) The Dutch.
(c) The English.
(d) The French.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Aubrey confer in Aubrey's cabin?

2. What is the Franklin?

3. Where has the other patient which Maturin is examining been?

4. What is threatening British interests in the area where they are headed?

5. Who does Aubrey send out to scout?

(see the answer key)

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