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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. What does Maturin spend his time and money doing?
(a) Putting in medical supplies.
(b) Learning how to play cricket.
(c) Various machinations to deny the French resupply at various ports.
(d) Buying specimen jars and preservatives.

2. Where is the unnamed island?
(a) In the Indian Ocean.
(b) Near Cape Horn.
(c) The South China Sea.
(d) In the Atlantic Ocean.

3. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?
(a) Rate them as midshipmen.
(b) Put them in the brig.
(c) Turns them before the mast.
(d) Refuse to take them on board.

4. Who organizes the shipwrecked men's camp?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Martin.
(c) Welby.
(d) Aubrey.

5. What does Maturin hope the Cornélie will be without?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) A surgeon.
(c) Enough money for a good refitting.
(d) A captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kesegaran get to the island?

2. Who owns the Chinese junk?

3. To where does the junk take the British sailors?

4. Who does Maturin encounter that he knows on the trip on the junk?

5. What does Maturin play up?

(see the answer key)

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