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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Clarissa secure a good position when she is put on the streets after Edward's death?
(a) She has a lot of nice clothes.
(b) She is well educated.
(c) She is experienced.
(d) She is a real beauty.

2. Who does not appear at breakfast for several days?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Oakes.
(c) Clarissa.
(d) Aubrey.

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

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

5. What does Surprise cross at the opening to Chapter 3?
(a) The equator.
(b) The Mediterrean Sea.
(c) The Glassy Sea.
(d) The Indian Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Aubrey react to his discovery?

2. What do Maturin and Aubrey agree on about Clarissa?

3. What is brought on board the Surprise?

4. What does Aubrey think about life at sea compared to that on land?

5. Upon whose behalf do Maturin and Aubrey think they must intervene?

(see the answer key)

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