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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. What does Maturin do pro bono?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Gathers intelligence for the British.
(c) Performs surgery for local indigents.
(d) Sends specimens to the British Naturlist Society.

2. How does Surprise get off the mud bank?
(a) They lighten the ship and wait for the tide to come in.
(b) The crew has to dig her out.
(c) She is pulled.
(d) The hole in the hull is repaired and the water is pumped out which allows her to float off it.

3. What makes Maturin wake?
(a) A bird feather tickling his nose.
(b) Hearing Butcher and Martin discussing him.
(c) Snuff dripping on his face.
(d) Gunshots.

4. What does Aubrey spend much time doing?
(a) Gathering wood to build a shelter.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Making a rain catcher.
(d) Calculating probable courses and time passed in the water.

5. What does the older women want to do with Aubrey?
(a) Use him to get the younger women pregnant.
(b) Castrate him.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Use him for shark bait.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Maturin purchase a large quantity?

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

3. Who are Manu and Taio?

4. What does Higgins continue to do?

5. Why are Martin and Hogg clubbed?

(see the answer key)

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