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

2. For what will they use the harpooned creature?
(a) To stuff as a trophy on the outer bulkhead.
(b) Bait to catch more fish.
(c) To sell at the next port for fresh fruit.
(d) A wedding dinner for Oakes and Clarissa.

3. What does Martin accept from Maturin?
(a) A few pounds to tide him over until he finds a new position.
(b) A position as clergy.
(c) A position of shipboard chaplain.
(d) Being dropped at a missionary settlement near Cape Horn.

4. What does Aubrey anticipate when he goes back to England?
(a) Posting on a much larger vessel than the one he is currently on.
(b) Finding that his investments have soared.
(c) Learning if his father, who was critically ill, has died.
(d) The birth of his first son.

5. Why can they not visit the island that Maturin had hoped to see?
(a) Narration does not say why.
(b) There is a hostile takeover by the French there.
(c) The wind is not good.
(d) The natives do not allow it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin hope to do some day?

2. In what does Maturin become involved?

3. Who harpoons the creature?

4. How does Aubrey react to his discovery?

5. Why had Padeen been at a penal colony?

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