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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8, 9, and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom does Surprise rendezvous unexpectedly?
(a) The HMS Dagger.
(b) The USS Constitution.
(c) A French privateer.
(d) Several Indiamen.

2. Who has meet Mr. Butcher before?
(a) Wombley.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Martin.

3. Who is Honey?
(a) An old flame of Aubrey's whom he thinks about.
(b) One of the women on the outrigger that returns.
(c) The launch's commander.
(d) An old flame of Mauturin's whom he thinks about.

4. How does Aubrey get updated information about the ship he is chasing?
(a) A British man-o-war is patrolling the area.
(b) There are British whalers in the longboat.
(c) He is unable to get any recent information.
(d) The natives describe a ship that could be the Constitution.

5. Why does Aubrey contrive to cross the equator on Sunday?
(a) It is considered good luck to do so.
(b) He does not contrive to do so; it just happens.
(c) So they will not be in port until the next week.
(d) So the crew will not party.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Maturin and Martin spend their days?

2. Who once gave Mrs. Fielding passage aboard his ship?

3. What does Hollom begin that is scandalous?

4. From where are earwigs supposedly removed?

5. What happens to over half of the whales killed?

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