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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the barometer reacting to conditions?
(a) Rising rapidly.
(b) Falling rapidly.
(c) Holding steady.
(d) Going up and down.

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

3. What main part of Franklin do the carpenters have to replace?
(a) The bow spars.
(b) The forecastle.
(c) The mast.
(d) The rudder.

4. What does Maturin think happened between the woman and Martin?
(a) They had some sort of sexual relationship.
(b) He doesn't think anything happened between them.
(c) They became enemies.
(d) They became good friends.

5. For whom is Aubrey making sea observations?
(a) John Newton.
(b) No one.
(c) Alexander von Humboldt.
(d) The Royal Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the religious groups from the town in question #50 hate mutually?

2. Why does Maturin write the letter in question #59?

3. Why does Franklin want to lighten her load?

4. How are the winds behaving by the end of Chapter 1?

5. What does Aubrey consider the owner of the Franklin to be on Surprise?

(see the answer key)

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