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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say Graham is bereft of?
(a) Hair.
(b) Patience.
(c) Humor.
(d) Malice.

2. What do the officers gossip about while at the first stop?
(a) Other officers.
(b) All of these.
(c) What the mission will be.
(d) The personalities of the crew.

3. Where do the French escape into after the conflict at the blockade?
(a) A port.
(b) A coral reef.
(c) Toulon.
(d) A Harbor.

4. What does Thornton talk to Maturin about during their visit together?
(a) How the blockade is working.
(b) Politics.
(c) Aubrey's health.
(d) All of these.

5. What causes a crew member to be so disobedient to the order about the birds?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He is insane.
(d) He is drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crew have to pay most attention to during a storm?

2. What do the crew do when the birds land on the ship?

3. What does Aubrey do before setting sail across the sea?

4. What kind of birds flocks over the blockade?

5. What does Aubrey call his biggest burden as a captain?

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