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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of relationship does Ponto's rescuer engender with Mrs. Fielding?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Guarded acquaintance.
(c) Deep love.
(d) Genuine friendship.

2. Who is Andrew Wray?
(a) Maturin's good botanist friend.
(b) Mrs. Fielding's lover.
(c) Aubrey's First Lieutenant.
(d) An idealist on the side of the French.

3. What does Ponto do at the shop?
(a) Harms the owner.
(b) Breaks some of the merchandise.
(c) He's an apprentice.
(d) He is buying something.

4. What are the officers not enjoying their time in Malta?
(a) The natives are hostile to them.
(b) They have received new orders to the West Indies.
(c) Their ships are being repaired and they are unemployed.
(d) The war is about to end and they will be unemployed.

5. About what do the citizens gossip?
(a) About Maturin having an affair with Mrs. Fielding.
(b) About Ponto's relationship with Mrs. Fielding.
(c) About Ponto's relationship to Aubrey.
(d) About Aubrey having an affair with Mrs. Fielding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aubrey order the men to row to an island and back?

2. Where does Aubrey find Maturin enjoying a performance?

3. What is happening to many of Aubrey's best men?

4. Whom does Lesueur suspect of being an undercover agent for England?

5. Why is Aubrey disappointed about the admiral he visits?

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