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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 color is the bolt of silk which Aubrey has?
(a) Pale blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Scarlet.

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

3. What are Aubrey and Maturin doing as they sail?
(a) Playing chess.
(b) Reading their letters from home.
(c) Playing whist.
(d) Discussing the war.

4. What does the Éclair want with the Surprise?
(a) To deliver several new crew members.
(b) To bring a new commander and take Aubrey to his new ship assignment.
(c) To deliver mail and new orders.
(d) To search for stowaways.

5. With whom does Aubrey confer in Aubrey's cabin?
(a) Oates.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Pullings.
(d) Jones.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aubrey realize?

2. In what is the crew of the Surprise to intervene?

3. Why can they not visit the island that Maturin had hoped to see?

4. What island does Maturin hope to visit?

5. Where has one of the patients that Maturin is examining been?

(see the answer key)

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