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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Ariel intervene in the chase?
(a) Aubrey sees it as easy prize money.
(b) Jason signals them to do so.
(c) Ariel is much larger than the Jason.
(d) Jason cannot close.

3. From what does Hyde suffer?
(a) He transposes words as he speaks.
(b) Grief for his wife who died recently.
(c) Severe headaches.
(d) Opium addiction.

4. Where do the transports loaded with Catalan troops go?
(a) Back to Samaurez' fleet.
(b) To England to wait out the war.
(c) To France.
(d) To the coastal waters off Brazil.

5. For what is Aubrey searching?
(a) A way to secretly get onshore and obtain fresh water.
(b) A suitable ship to capture.
(c) A passage through the treacherous reefs.
(d) A passage around an island that would keep the ship hidden.

6. Who is Jagiello?
(a) A pirate for whom Ariel has hired for advising.
(b) A character in a Shakespeare play that Maturin is reading.
(c) One of the sailmen.
(d) A young officer of the Swedish service.

7. What does Maturin try to teach Jagiello?
(a) About life at sea.
(b) How to overcome his bad looks.
(c) How to use a prothesis that Maturin makes for him.
(d) Nothing; Jagiello is just a character in a book.

8. What does Maturin suggest?
(a) That Aubrey dress as a pirate when sailing the Minnie.
(b) That Aubrey dress as a Dutch officer while sailing the Minnie.
(c) That the Ariel pretend to chase the Minnie into the harbor at Grimsholm.
(d) That Jiegello assume command of the Minnie.

9. What are the seas like as the convoy travels onward?
(a) Calm.
(b) Unsettled.
(c) Twenty-foot waves.
(d) Glassy.

10. With whose fleet does the Ariel rendezvous?
(a) Admiral Hornblower.
(b) Admiral Sir Drake.
(c) Admiral Sir James Saumarez.
(d) Admiral Lord Nelson.

11. What does Maturin think would happen to an unfamiliar warship approaching Grimsholm?
(a) It would put the Grimsholm soldiers on high alert.
(b) It would be fired upon.
(c) He is not sure what would happen.
(d) It would arouse suspicians.

12. What is the approximate crew capacity of the Ariel?
(a) About 25-40.
(b) About 50-75.
(c) About 270-300.
(d) About 112-120 men.

13. What does Aubrey have to do when the people in the small boat do not heed his warning?
(a) Fire upon them and kill them.
(b) Send another boat after them to capture them.
(c) Let them go.
(d) Fire a warning shot across their bow which halts them.

14. What is held after meeting up with the fleet?
(a) A celebration for the end of the War of 1812.
(b) A celebration for the capture of the USS Constitution.
(c) More political discussions and planning sessions.
(d) A fest held for the native Gibraltons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Maturin and Jagiello do one foggy morning?

2. Who does Aubrey warn in a small boat?

3. What does the Ariel do?

4. What can prevent a ship from determining its longitude?

5. What is Jagiello supposed to be doing?

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