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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ambergris?
(a) What is gotten when compressing the heart of a whale.
(b) A substance rendered from boiling the blubber.
(c) A waxy golden substance found in whale intestines.
(d) A waxy golden substance found in whale brains.

2. What does Higgins begin to do?
(a) Give Aubrey wrinkled uniforms.
(b) Sleep through his duties.
(c) Practice superstitious mumble-jumbo.
(d) Come down hard on his crew even when they are doing things correctly.

3. How does Aubrey find Allen's conversation?
(a) Boring.
(b) Sad.
(c) Unbelievable.
(d) Vaguely useful.

4. Where is Surprise to meet the HMS Danaë?
(a) Near Haiti.
(b) Near Buenos Aires.
(c) Near Boston.
(d) Near Newfoundland.

5. What does Martin say he has been contemplating?
(a) Settling in the West Indies.
(b) Leaving the Navy.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Maturin and Mrs. Fielding rumored to once be associated?

2. Who recognizes Aubrey and Maturin on the ship the Surprise encounters?

3. What does Maturin do with the blood from the crew?

4. How are whales stripped of their blubber?

5. What is Midshipman Hollom's situation on Gibraltar?

(see the answer key)

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