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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey fear?
(a) He is financially ruined.
(b) His wife will die.
(c) His children will be lost without their mother.
(d) He will not have the money to rebuild his home.

2. Where is Ariel headed?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Rock of Gibraltar.
(c) The Baltic Sea.
(d) Cape Horn.

3. Why does Aubrey get struck with a piece of hard meat?
(a) Hyde is clumsy at cutting food.
(b) A sailor gets angry and throws it at another sailor but misses and it hits Aubrey.
(c) Jagiello gets frustrated trying to cut his meat with his remaining hand and slams his fork down and sends the meat flying into Aubrey.
(d) Aurbrey walks in the kitchen to get tea when the cook is tossing the meat across the room to a bin.

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

5. Why would Grisholm give the Minnie docking privileges?
(a) Because the Minnie is bringing supplies to Grisholm
(b) Because the owner of the Minnie is in Grisholm at the moment.
(c) Because the Minnie is bringing the new relief commander to Grisholm.
(d) Because the Minnie is known to be friendly to the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Ariel?

2. What disaster strikes the Ariel?

3. What is Jagiello's most prominent feature?

4. How is Villiers' appearance at the ball?

5. For what does Aubrey use Maturin's hack watch?

(see the answer key)

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