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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what do Johnson's plantation workers comprise?
(a) Well-paid freed slaves.
(b) He has no plantations to speak of.
(c) Well-paid poor white farmers.
(d) A large group of slaves, mostly his own progeny.

2. Who is aged, dissipated by alcohol, and fairly crass of speech?
(a) George Herapath.
(b) Alyers.
(c) Villiers.
(d) Wogan.

3. How might the voyage back to England be described?
(a) Monotonous.
(b) Fraught with danger.
(c) Rough seas.
(d) Stimulating.

4. What does Aubrey watch in the dense fog?
(a) Maturin being tortured.
(b) A spy being hung.
(c) Two English frigates sneak past the American blockade.
(d) Two American frigates sneak past the English blockade.

5. How does Maturin almost make a serious faux pas?
(a) By telling the first mate what Maturin thinks of the mate's mother.
(b) By forgetting the Captain's name.
(c) By asking to examine the eye socket of a one-eyed sailor.
(d) By almost missing the Captain's table.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maturin arouse humor among the cricket players and audience?

2. Who rescues Aubrey from making a serious faux pas?

3. What war do they learn has erupted?

4. What has been the outcome of those encounters?

5. How is Aubrey's arm?

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