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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aubrey intending to do?
(a) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on the Eastern coast of Africa.
(b) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Tahiti.
(c) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Easter Island.
(d) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Norfolk Island.

2. Where is Aubrey's vessel headed now?
(a) England.
(b) Africa.
(c) The coast of France.
(d) The West Indies.

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

4. What does Aubrey find below decks?
(a) A dead crew member.
(b) A keg of contraband whiskey.
(c) A huge nest of rats.
(d) Clarissa.

5. What does Aubrey inspect with Tom?
(a) The galley.
(b) The ropes.
(c) The cable tiers.
(d) The rigging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Clarissa Oakes?

2. What does Maturin hope to do some day?

3. Why had Padeen been at a penal colony?

4. To what does the man admit?

5. For what does the Surprise ready?

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