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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 is Aubrey intending to do?
(a) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on the Eastern coast of Africa.
(b) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Easter Island.
(c) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Tahiti.
(d) Marooning Oakes and Clarissa on Norfolk Island.

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

3. To what does the man admit?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Having smuggled the contraband aboard himself.
(c) Having turned an eye while the men were rolling the whiskey on board.
(d) Unofficially knowing of the presence of what Aubrey found below decks.

4. Who performs the marriage ceremony between Oakes and Clarissa?
(a) Aubrey.
(b) Reverend Nathaniel Martin.
(c) The first mate who happens to also be a preacher.
(d) Maturin.

5. What does Maturin hope to do some day?
(a) Find a native wife at one of the tropical islands.
(b) Have a large enough vessel to sail around the world.
(c) Visit both places his patients have been.
(d) Study the fauna at the Galapagos.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does the Surprise ready?

2. What does Aubrey discover about his land holdings?

3. What does Aubrey host as the Surprise heads for its new assignment?

4. Who smuggles Clarissa on board?

5. What class is the vessel?

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