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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 play up?
(a) A minor injury that he suffers.
(b) The wonder of birds' nest soup.
(c) A minor injury that Aubrey suffers.
(d) A minor injury on a child.

2. How does Kesegaran get to the island?
(a) On a French privateer.
(b) She lives there.
(c) The slaver ship she was on wrecks.
(d) In a proa.

3. What does Maturin want to do about the Cornélie?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Make an agreement with the captain of it.
(c) Change its name to something that sounds less French.
(d) Pursue and destroy it.

4. Whose nests does Maturin find?
(a) Robins.
(b) Terns.
(c) Swifts.
(d) Sea Eagles.

5. To whom does Maturin give bribes?
(a) A friend.
(b) The chief at Pulo Prabang.
(c) The chief of the Dyaks.
(d) A French captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are his carpenters and seamen begun building?

2. Who does Maturin spy one morning when he wakes up?

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

4. How does Maturin spend the next few days after collapsing?

5. What does Maturin spend his time and money doing?

(see the answer key)

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