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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. Why had Padeen been at a penal colony?
(a) For serious crimes he committed.
(b) As a guard.
(c) As the cook.
(d) As the warden.

2. Where has one of the patients that Maturin is examining been?
(a) Tibet.
(b) China.
(c) India.
(d) Norfolk Island.

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

4. Who performs the marriage ceremony between Oakes and Clarissa?
(a) The first mate who happens to also be a preacher.
(b) Reverend Nathaniel Martin.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Maturin.

5. What does the scout report?
(a) There is a quarantine due to an outbreak of the plague.
(b) A safe landing is not possible.
(c) The Surprise cannot get close, but a boat can get within 100 yards of shore.
(d) A safe landing is possible at low tide.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what is the crew of the Surprise to intervene?

2. What will happen if Oakes marries Clarissa?

3. What does Aubrey realize?

4. What is closed?

5. What is Aubrey doing as he is standing on the quarterdeck?

(see the answer key)

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