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

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

3. What British interests or laws are being threatened?
(a) The monopoly on coffee.
(b) Fur-trading.
(c) The rum import tariff.
(d) The slave trade act of 1807.

4. What is Aubrey doing as he is standing on the quarterdeck?
(a) Talking to Maturin about what they will do when they reach the West Indies.
(b) Watching a punishment of 20 lashes being carried out.
(c) Contemplating the previous weeks' events.
(d) Talking to the officer accused of cheating.

5. What is causing contention among the ship's officers?
(a) One of them has accused another of cheating at cards.
(b) One of them has accused another of cheating at dice.
(c) How the prize money is being divided.
(d) Clarissa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has one of the patients that Maturin is examining been?

2. What is threatening British interests in the area where they are headed?

3. What does Aubrey inspect with Tom?

4. What is Aubrey intending to do?

5. How does Aubrey find the Surprise?

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