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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin think the meeting with the commander of Grimsholm will require?
(a) He is unsure.
(b) Slow, methodical interaction.
(c) Nimble thinking.
(d) Lots of patience.

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

3. What moves into the area?
(a) A large storm system.
(b) A huge pod of humpback whales.
(c) A thick fog.
(d) A huge pod of bottlenose dolphins.

4. Who sends Aubrey in the right direction to find a vessel to capture?
(a) Dalgliesh.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Samaurez.
(d) Jiegello.

5. How does Blaine brief Maturin about the meeting with the commander of Grimsholm?
(a) Blaine briefs Maturin rather extensively.
(b) He has Maturin read the intelligence Blaine has received.
(c) Just a few observations.
(d) He does not brief Maturin at all.

6. What ill omen occurs during the planning of the mission?
(a) Aubrey drops and breaks the glass in which he offers a toast.
(b) Aubrey's sword slips out of its scabbard when he hands it to Maturin.
(c) Aubrey spills wine on the uniform Maturin is to don.
(d) Aubrey cannot find his map of the Grisholm area.

7. Where is the convoy of which the Ariel is part traveling at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) The Canaberra Sea.
(b) The Baltic straits.
(c) The Ionic Sea.
(d) The Straits of Gibralter.

8. What does Maturin try to teach Jagiello?
(a) About life at sea.
(b) How to overcome his bad looks.
(c) Nothing; Jagiello is just a character in a book.
(d) How to use a prothesis that Maturin makes for him.

9. Why does Ariel intervene in the chase?
(a) Aubrey sees it as easy prize money.
(b) Ariel is much larger than the Jason.
(c) Jason cannot close.
(d) Jason signals them to do so.

10. What can prevent a ship from determining its longitude?
(a) A broken chronometer.
(b) Cloudy skies.
(c) A broken gyrocompass.
(d) A broken sextant.

11. Who is waiting to greet the crew of the Ariel as they come ashore?
(a) A pirate band.
(b) French peasants.
(c) French soldiers.
(d) No one.

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

13. What does Maturin tell Blaine?
(a) Maturin will accept a position at a medical college.
(b) Maturin will travel to Grimsholm.
(c) Maturin will accept an assignment on the Shannon.
(d) Maturin will go back to Boston.

14. Who does Aubrey warn in a small boat?
(a) Some officers from the Minnie.
(b) No one.
(c) Some local scavengers.
(d) Some fishermen.

15. Who is Jagiello?
(a) A character in a Shakespeare play that Maturin is reading.
(b) A young officer of the Swedish service.
(c) One of the sailmen.
(d) A pirate for whom Ariel has hired for advising.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who meets with D'Ullastret?

2. What do Ariel and her transports manage to weather?

3. What happens as Aubrey is trying to get the Ariel away from The Thatcher?

4. What does the fortress garrison decide?

5. How is Aubrey further slandered?

(see the answer keys)

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