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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 the fortress garrison decide?
(a) To pretend friendship to lure the Ariel in close.
(b) To defect to the British cause.
(c) To hold Maturin hostage.
(d) To let Maturin go but to stay loyal to the French.

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

3. What do Ariel and her transports manage to weather?
(a) High winds.
(b) A promontory.
(c) A rogue wave.
(d) A tsunami.

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

5. What surprises Captain Dalgliesh?
(a) That one of the schooners is not flying American colours.
(b) That the two American schooners are so persistently following them.
(c) That the two schooners fall behind so quickly.
(d) That the two schooners break off so quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maturin intend to do in Paris?

2. In what recent battle does Aubrey participate as a combatant?

3. What was Maturin doing in America recently?

4. Who gave Villiers the diamond necklace?

5. What does Pellworm say about the voyage?

(see the answer key)

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