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

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

3. Who drinks himself under the table?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Midshipman Reade.
(c) The first mate.
(d) Maturin.

4. What happens between Davidge and West?
(a) A division.
(b) An agreement to invest together in a farm when they return to England.
(c) A discovery.
(d) Nothing.

5. What is wrong with the duke who is mentioned by Clarissa?
(a) His left eye is missing.
(b) 8 of his fingers are deformed.
(c) A deformity in his leg.
(d) His left arm is deformed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is pursuing the Surprise?

2. What is closed?

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

4. Why does Clarissa secure a good position when she is put on the streets after Edward's death?

5. What port do they depart at the opening of the story?

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