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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is critical after the attack?
(a) A way to retrieve the tools.
(b) Food supplies are critically low.
(c) A way to summon help.
(d) A way to find more wood for cooking fires.

2. What is one thing that interests Kesegaran about the camp?
(a) The tools.
(b) The cannons.
(c) The books.
(d) The women.

3. Who attacks the sailors?
(a) Pirates.
(b) The French.
(c) A tribe of warriors called Dyaks.
(d) No one.

4. What do the men do for entertainment?
(a) Play whist.
(b) Play cricket.
(c) Play craps.
(d) Play cards.

5. What does Maturin find when he goes to gather the nests?
(a) A wounded Dyak.
(b) Some Chinese children gathering the nests.
(c) The nests had all been put to the torch by the attackers.
(d) He cannot find them again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose nests does Maturin find?

2. Why does Maturin collapse?

3. Approximately how many men are marooned on an unnamed island?

4. How far do they figure they will have to sail to find assistance?

5. Why do the sailors find Kesegaran interesting?

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