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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Aubrey and Maturin doing as they sail?
(a) Discussing the war.
(b) Reading their letters from home.
(c) Playing whist.
(d) Playing chess.

2. What does Reade do?
(a) Falls off the flying bridge.
(b) Falls overboard.
(c) Falls off the topsail rigging.
(d) Falls and lands on a marlinspike.

3. To what is Clarissa's sentence of death commuted?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) A pardon when her innocence is proven.
(d) Life in prison.

4. What does Maturin discover when he goes to see Clarissa?
(a) She has scurvy.
(b) She has morningsickness.
(c) She has been beaten.
(d) She is seasick.

5. Who is crewing the Franklin?
(a) Frenchmen.
(b) English.
(c) Americans.
(d) Dutch.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the man admit?

2. To whom does Aubrey give his word that there are no stowaways on board?

3. Who is Tom Pullings?

4. Who speaks freely?

5. What is the name of the good harbor on Moahu?

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