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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Aubrey and the scout seem to have?
(a) A good friendship.
(b) A barely-concealed animosity.
(c) A private understanding.
(d) Similar ways of doing things.

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

3. With whom does Aubrey confer in Aubrey's cabin?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Jones.
(d) Oates.

4. What is the approximate date at the opening of the novel?
(a) 1813.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1820.

5. To what does the man admit?
(a) Unofficially knowing of the presence of what Aubrey found below decks.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Having turned an eye while the men were rolling the whiskey on board.
(d) Having smuggled the contraband aboard himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?

2. Where is Aubrey's vessel headed now?

3. What does the crew catch?

4. Who starts visiting Maturin?

5. What is closed?

(see the answer key)

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