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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aubrey call the view from the crow's nest?
(a) Blink out.
(b) God's eye.
(c) Day blink.
(d) God's blink.

3. Why is celestial navigation out of the question?
(a) They do not have a sextant.
(b) Overcast skies.
(c) Their navigator died while at Grimsholm.
(d) The charts for extrapolation were lost overboard in the last fight.

4. What do Maturin and Jagiello do one foggy morning?
(a) Practice hand-to-hand combat.
(b) Practice their swordplay.
(c) Go aloft.
(d) Jump overboard to save someone who fell off the flying bridge.

5. What surprises Captain Dalgliesh?
(a) That one of the schooners is not flying American colours.
(b) That the two schooners fall behind so quickly.
(c) That the two American schooners are so persistently following them.
(d) That the two schooners break off so quickly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do Smith and Aubrey leave the ball?

3. What is held after meeting up with the fleet?

4. What news does Smith spread far and wide?

5. Why does Ariel intervene in the chase?

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