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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Amanda Smith?
(a) A young woman asked to be Villiers's maid.
(b) A young woman who dotes on Aubrey.
(c) Matruin's cousin who is there with her mother.
(d) The daughter of the host at the ball.

2. How is Aubrey further slandered?
(a) Grant claims Aubrey collaborated with the Americans while in Boston.
(b) Amanda Smith writes and claims she is pregnant by him.
(c) Amanda Smith shows up in England and confronts Aubrey's wife.
(d) Grant claims Aubrey did not sink Waakzaamheid, a Dutch ship-of-war, but a nondescript transport.

3. 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 American Trader.
(c) The Patriot.
(d) The Bostonian.

4. What happens to one of the American schooners that delays their pursuit?
(a) The main mast breaks.
(b) It hits an iceberg.
(c) The rudder pinion breaks off.
(d) There is a mutiny.

5. How does Maturin prepare for his mission to Grimsholm?
(a) With intensive study.
(b) He does not attempt to prepare in the least.
(c) Rather casually.
(d) With minute planning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jagiello's most prominent feature?

2. What does Aubrey discuss with Maturin at this point in the book?

3. What does Maturin find irresistible about Villiers?

4. What does Maturin do at the ball?

5. What does Captain Broke need to do?

(see the answer key)

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