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

2. What can prevent a ship from determining its longitude?
(a) A broken chronometer.
(b) Cloudy skies.
(c) A broken gyrocompass.
(d) A broken sextant.

3. Who does Aubrey quote that misleads Amanda Smith?
(a) Villiers.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Admiral Nelson.
(d) Harry Johnson.

4. What does Maturin intend to do in Paris?
(a) Spy.
(b) Deliver diplomatic papers to the embassy.
(c) Lecture at a scientific academy.
(d) Learn what he can of his nephew's disappearance.

5. Who is Pelloworm?
(a) The bosun on one of the merchant vessels.
(b) The Baltic pilot.
(c) The sailor in the crow's nest who sights a French frigate.
(d) Second in command of the Catalan troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ariel headed?

2. Why does Aubrey get struck with a piece of hard meat?

3. Who is Amanda Smith?

4. Where does the vessel carrying Aubrey and company arrive?

5. Who is Hyde?

(see the answer key)

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