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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom do the transports rendezvous?
(a) Several prisoner transports.
(b) A group of French civilians.
(c) No one.
(d) A commercial fleet.

2. What are the seas like as the convoy travels onward?
(a) Glassy.
(b) Twenty-foot waves.
(c) Calm.
(d) Unsettled.

3. What is the name of one of the American schooners that converges on the ship where Maturin, Aubrey and Villiers are?
(a) The American Trader.
(b) The Bostonian.
(c) The Liberty.
(d) The Patriot.

4. What does Villiers confide to Maturin?
(a) That she left all her money in the hotel in Boston in her haste to leave.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) That she loves him.
(d) That she is actually already married to Harry Johnson.

5. What does Maturin hint to Aubrey at Aubrey's home?
(a) That Maturin will help Aubrey financially.
(b) That Aubrey should refuse all correspondence from Smith.
(c) That Sophie may be pregnant again.
(d) That Aubrey will soon be back in command on a vessel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Broke need to do?

2. What is the relationship between Maturin and the commander at Grimsholm?

3. How does Aubrey act at the ball?

4. How does Villiers fare at the beginning of the sea voyage?

5. How is Aubrey further slandered?

(see the answer key)

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