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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What compels Aubrey to find Smith quite attractive?
(a) Nothing could compel him to find her attractive.
(b) Maturin's request that Aubrey be kind to his cousin.
(c) He does not want to insult her father, the host.
(d) Alcohol.

2. What does Maturin ask Villiers?
(a) To keep quiet about his activities in America.
(b) To marry him.
(c) To take a letter to a colleague in England.
(d) To take a letter to a colleague in Brazil.

3. What is the relationship between Harry Johnson and Villiers?
(a) They are brother and sister-in-law.
(b) They are former lovers.
(c) They are husband and wife.
(d) They do not know each other.

4. What is Harry Johnson's financial situation?
(a) He is extremely wealthy.
(b) His financial status is not mentioned.
(c) He is almost penniless having spent his fortune funding the revolutionary war.
(d) He is penniless but is hoping for an investment in a slaver vessel to turn that around.

5. What does the mail that arrives confirm?
(a) Aubrey's worse fears about Kimber.
(b) That Aubrey's wife has died.
(c) That not only has Aubrey's wife died, but also his oldest son.
(d) That Aubrey's estate is irreparably damaged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Villiers recently become?

2. What is spreading like wildfire in the town where Shannon is docking?

3. About what do men comment concerning Villiers?

4. What do Villiers and Maturin deduce about the pursuit by the two schooners?

5. What was Maturin doing in America recently?

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