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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?
(a) That he challenges Aubrey on a matter of seamanship.
(b) That he chose to stay at their last port.
(c) That he brought liquor on board the ship.
(d) That he is aboard the vessel.

2. What does Aubrey realize?
(a) The dead crew member just signed on at the last port.
(b) That the ship must not have been thoroughly checked for rats at the last port.
(c) That the contraband whiskey must have come aboard at the last port call.
(d) That he has found the source of the crew's apparent high morale.

3. What does Aubrey encounter in their first port of call?
(a) A rum runner's ring.
(b) A revolt by a penal colony.
(c) A gun runner's ring.
(d) Political difficulties.

4. In what does Maturin become involved?
(a) An epidemic.
(b) A dispute of honor.
(c) A study of the local flora and fauna.
(d) A dispute about medical treatment.

5. Who is Clarissa Oakes?
(a) The daughter of the Egyptian consulate.
(b) A stowaway.
(c) Aubrey's sister-in-law.
(d) The wife of Maturin's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey anticipate when he goes back to England?

2. What is causing contention among the ship's officers?

3. Who is Tom Pullings?

4. What does Aubrey find below decks?

5. To what does the man admit?

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