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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 Maturin do at the ball?
(a) Sleeps in a corner chair.
(b) Watches other people and examines the potted plants.
(c) Escorts Villiers from group to group introducing her.
(d) Dances almost every dance.

2. For what is everyone waiting anxiously?
(a) For the return of two packets with further orders for Aubrey and Maturin.
(b) The coming of the new ambassador from Germany.
(c) The coming of the new ambassador from the United States.
(d) For Captain Broke's wounds to heal.

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

4. What does Blaine suggest to Aubrey?
(a) That Aubrey travel with Maturin.
(b) That he spend some time at home before a new assignemnt.
(c) A competent attorney.
(d) That Aubrey try to get a new assignment quickly before summons can be engendered.

5. What does Aubrey feel a few hours later?
(a) That they are missing something in their planning.
(b) Ill as if he were poisoned.
(c) A premonition of disaster.
(d) He has a massive headache.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ill omen occurs during the planning of the mission?

2. Though Maturin's watch is less than desirable for navigating, what is it good for?

3. How does Maturin respond to attempts by Frenchman to use him as a courier?

4. From where have Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers just escaped?

5. What do Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers do to effect a return to England?

(see the answer key)

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