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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ponto greet Captain Aubrey when he sees him in the market?
(a) Hostilely.
(b) He does not know Aubrey.
(c) Excitedly.
(d) Standoffish.

2. With what event does the arrival coincide?
(a) None.
(b) Easter.
(c) Ramadan.
(d) Yom Kippur.

3. What are Aubrey and his crew supposed to travel across?
(a) The equator.
(b) A mountain range.
(c) The prime meridian.
(d) A desert.

4. What kind of meeting does Maturin have that morning?
(a) Business.
(b) None.
(c) Pathology lecture.
(d) Medical lecture.

5. What is happening to the Worcester?
(a) It is being sunk.
(b) It is being given to another officer to command.
(c) It is being retired.
(d) It is being retrofitted and will be in dry dock for a year or more.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Dromedary?

2. How does one gain rank in the British navy?

3. Who does Aubrey go to meet?

4. Why does the trip become easier on the second day of the march across the desert?

5. What is a requirement of Ramadan?

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