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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Aubrey refer to Dutourd's ideas?
(a) Interesting and provocative.
(b) Pie in the sky.
(c) Revolutionary and bloody.
(d) Stupid and not well thought out.

2. What kind of news does the Englishman give Aubrey?
(a) There is a French privateer nearby.
(b) The Spanish western Amanda is close.
(c) The Spanish have four battleships in a blockade of Peru.
(d) There is an American privateer nearby.

3. Who had smuggled a woman aboard the Surprise a few months previous?
(a) Martin.
(b) One of the officers.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) A midshipman.

4. What does Maturin see Martin doing in sick bay?
(a) Taking some pain killers.
(b) Treating a patient.
(c) Mixing a dose of medicine.
(d) Smoking coca leaves.

5. What does Surprise's crew do about the two ships?
(a) Salvages what is usable off Franklin for Surprise.
(b) Works to repair both of them.
(c) Surprise's crew doesn't do anything to Franklin.
(d) Lashes the two ships together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Martin spend a lot of time with the woman?

2. What does Martin tell Maturin about birds?

3. To where does Maturin want to travel?

4. How does Surprise steer her way to the Franklin?

5. How much information does the Englishman have on the ship Aubrey wants to capture?

(see the answer key)

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