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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the Catalan forces go?
(a) They stay there and help the English get established.
(b) They flee inland.
(c) They are captured and put in the dungeon at the fortress.
(d) Home.

2. About what do men comment concerning Villiers?
(a) Her exceptional beauty.
(b) Her reluctance to engage in social conversation.
(c) Her sad countenance.
(d) Her tendency to flitter about.

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

4. What does the mail that arrives confirm?
(a) That Aubrey's estate is irreparably damaged.
(b) Aubrey's worse fears about Kimber.
(c) That Aubrey's wife has died.
(d) That not only has Aubrey's wife died, but also his oldest son.

5. What do the Ariel and Humbug do cooperatively?
(a) Repairs the hole in Minnie's hull from the underground reef.
(b) Capture the Minnie and straigten out her sails.
(c) Heave the Minnie off the mud flat.
(d) Install a new mail sail on the Minnie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin ask Villiers?

2. How does Aubrey act at the ball?

3. Who joins Aubrey in chasing the Minnie?

4. What happens to one of the American schooners that delays their pursuit?

5. What happens to the crew on that schooner?

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