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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the French soldiers guarding the prisoners at Port Mahon escape harm?
(a) One French officer gets away.
(b) Only two guards are wounded.
(c) All French are killed.
(d) Only the prison commander dies.

2. Why is Jack Aubrey familiar with Port Mahon?
(a) He visits Maturin's nearby estate.
(b) He once lives at Port Mahon.
(c) He meets Diana Villiers there.
(d) He vacations there with Sophia.

3. How successful is Aubrey's message of flashes when he first gets to Minorca?
(a) He gets no replay from Maturin.
(b) He draws attention of the French.
(c) He misreads the response.
(d) He gets Maturin's signals back .

4. What French information that Aubrey acquires aids in his sailing into Port Mahon?
(a) Maragall sends the prison location through a native boy.
(b) He uses a code book from a captured French gunboat.
(c) He uses the French map smuggled by Maturin.
(d) Captured French sailor reveals secret codes.

5. How does H.M.S. Lively get messages and mail while on blockade duty?
(a) The ship goes into port.
(b) The ship waits for a replacement vessel.
(c) There's no way to get mail.
(d) Messenger cutter comes along side.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gruesome occurrence follows the French attempt to retaliate on gunboats against Aubrey and H.M.S. Lively?

2. What close friend do Sophie and Dr. Stephen Maturin have in common?

3. Sophie talks to Maturin in chapter one about the temporary assignment of whom?

4. While traveling under the new orders, where does Aubrey engage in a skirmish with the French?

5. When Aubrey first goes ashore on Minorca, who approaches him and wants to talk about Maturin?

(see the answer key)

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