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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. How does Surprise steer her way to the Franklin?
(a) Listening to the booming of guns.
(b) Seeing the fire on the prize ship.
(c) Following the signal lamps.
(d) Listening for the fog horns.

2. What does Franklin do to lighten her load?
(a) Tosses two cannons over board.
(b) Cuts the rope to the spare anchor.
(c) Throws out all the seamen's trunks.
(d) Pumps freshwater into the ocean.

3. With what is Franklin armed?
(a) It has no armament.
(b) Carronades taken from Surprise's ballast.
(c) It has five eight pound cannon.
(d) It has two sixteen pounders, one in front, one in back.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pullings do when he encounters the next prize ship?

2. Who is the owner of Franklin?

3. What condition seems to be covering Martin's skin?

4. What does Surprise's crew do about the two ships?

5. What color have the seas turned by the end of Chapter 1?

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