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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Aubrey and the scout seem to have?
(a) A good friendship.
(b) A private understanding.
(c) Similar ways of doing things.
(d) A barely-concealed animosity.

2. What do Aubrey and the crew do every morning?
(a) Flood the ballast and pump out the seawater.
(b) Have an officer's meeting and an enlisted men's meeting.
(c) Look over the rigging carefully.
(d) Check the cannonades.

3. What will happen if Oakes marries Clarissa?
(a) He will have to resign his commission.
(b) There will be professional repercussions for Oakes.
(c) He will have to leave her at the first port call where there are English.
(d) He will be a bigamist.

4. How has Clarissa modified her wedding dress?
(a) She has made it a bit more of a bold cut.
(b) She has made it larger to fit her growing stomach.
(c) Into an evening gown.
(d) She does not change anything since it's her wedding feast.

5. How does narration characterize the wedding dinner?
(a) Not a complete catastrophe.
(b) An evening of alternating rancor and delight.
(c) An absolute catastrophe.
(d) A wonderfully entertaining evening.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tom Pullings?

2. About what does Aubrey fume?

3. Where is the Franklin?

4. What do Aubrey and Maturin both note as Oakes and Clarissa enter the officer's mess?

5. What does Clarissa elicit from the men?

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