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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. Who is Yorke?
(a) The cook.
(b) The second mate.
(c) The ship's steward.
(d) The Captain of the La Flèche.

2. How does what the Leopard men do help the Java?
(a) They can concentrate on long-distance warfare.
(b) They are not just dead weight.
(c) They free up Java's men to board the Constitution.
(d) It relieves some marines for small-arms work in the fighting tops.

3. Where does La Flèche stop to resupply?
(a) Cape Town.
(b) An Italian port.
(c) A small port on Madagascar.
(d) Bora Bora.

4. How does Maturin find the Captain of the La Flèche?
(a) Arrogant and condescending.
(b) A fop.
(c) Entirely agreeable, well-read, and intelligent.
(d) Feckless.

5. Of what are some American agents accusing Aubrey?
(a) War crimes.
(b) Lying.
(c) Sedition.
(d) Executing an American soldier on the Leopard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey do on the voyage?

2. What does Aubrey strenuously argue to retain?

3. What do the sailors believe when they encounter a vessel?

4. What does Maturin realize?

5. Why is the La Flèche abandoned?

(see the answer key)

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