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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vessel are Aubrey and Maturin sailing?
(a) Shannon.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Leopold.
(d) Java.

2. What do Aubrey and the crew do every morning?
(a) Look over the rigging carefully.
(b) Have an officer's meeting and an enlisted men's meeting.
(c) Flood the ballast and pump out the seawater.
(d) Check the cannonades.

3. Who owns the vessel?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Maturin.
(c) The Dutch government.
(d) The English naval department.

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

5. How does narration characterize their mission?
(a) Successful.
(b) An abject failure.
(c) Partly successful, but they fail to fulfill one aspect of the mission.
(d) It has not yet been completed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maturin excited to learn?

2. What happens to the French forces with Kalahua?

3. Who is Clarissa Oakes?

4. To what is Clarissa's sentence of death commuted?

5. Who is pursuing the Surprise?

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