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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. Who takes over command of Franklin?
(a) West.
(b) Grainger.
(c) Norton.
(d) Pullings.

2. What does Aubrey think weather and sea conditions might mean?
(a) He doesn't know.
(b) The wind will stop.
(c) A bad storm is coming.
(d) It will be a full moon that night.

3. What does Pullings do when he encounters the next prize ship?
(a) Rams the ship in the bow.
(b) Waits for Surprise.
(c) Engages in a vicious boarding action.
(d) Sets the ship on fire.

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

5. What is a particular viewpoint of Dutourd that Maturin attacks during dinner?
(a) His idealist feelings about communism.
(b) That he believes humans can establish utopia.
(c) His scorn of the British nobility.
(d) His championing of Rosseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maturin avoid Dutourd?

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

3. What does Maturin request of Aubrey in port?

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

5. At what port does Surprise and her prizes stop in Chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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