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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Jagiello supposed to be doing?
(a) Infiltrating the Barbary Coast group.
(b) Teaching Dalgliesh how to sail around the reefs near Gibraltar.
(c) Advising and observing.
(d) Pretending to be someone he is not.

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

4. What type of vessel does Aubrey wish to capture?
(a) A slaver ship.
(b) A merchant vessel of French registry.
(c) Any that he can find since he can redo the markings.
(d) A local traonsport of small vessel that Grimsholm knows.

5. From what does Hyde suffer?
(a) He transposes words as he speaks.
(b) Opium addiction.
(c) Grief for his wife who died recently.
(d) Severe headaches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Minnie?

2. What does Maturin suggest?

3. Who lands to possess the fortress?

4. What does Aubrey feel a few hours later?

5. Who meets with D'Ullastret?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Ariel slow the Médusae down enough for the HMS Jason to catch the Médusae?

2. Why is Hyde cutting Jagiello's meat and what happens at dinner one evening when Hyde does so?

3. Describe the actions that lead to the wreck of the Ariel.

4. How does Lieutenant Grant slander Aubrey's name even further?

5. How does the Minnie complete her mission?

6. Why is Aubrey concerned when there is stormy weather?

7. What is the emergency to which Aubrey awakens?

8. What are a couple ill omens that Aubrey experiences that gives him the jitters?

9. Who is Pellworm; what does he predict and what is the first thing that happens that seem to prove his prediction to be true?

10. What does Ariel do after leaving Grisholm?

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