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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What angers Aubrey about Padeen Coleman?
(a) That he challenges Aubrey on a matter of seamanship.
(b) That he chose to stay at their last port.
(c) That he brought liquor on board the ship.
(d) That he is aboard the vessel.

2. About what do Maturin and Aubrey confer?
(a) The effect Clarissa continues to have on the crew.
(b) Aubrey's bad leg.
(c) The plans for intervening at Moahu.
(d) Aubrey's bad back.

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

4. What port do they depart at the opening of the story?
(a) Luxumborg.
(b) Port Jackson.
(c) Haifa.
(d) Port au Prince.

5. What is the focal point of the French power at Moahu?
(a) The Franklin.
(b) A fort overlooking the main bay.
(c) A garrison of the French Foreign Legion.
(d) About a hundred natives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who harpoons the creature?

2. What position does Clarissa eventually add on to her first job?

3. What do Maturin and Clarissa continue?

4. What does Maturin continue to write about Clarissa?

5. What does Maturin hope to do some day?

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