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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jagiello's most prominent feature?
(a) His huge nose.
(b) One arm is missing.
(c) His overwhelming beauty and enormous sex appeal.
(d) A scarred face from a ship fire.

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

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

4. Who lands to possess the fortress?
(a) A force of English troops.
(b) A force of Spanish troops.
(c) A force of Dutch troops.
(d) A force of French troops.

5. How is Aubrey further slandered?
(a) Amanda Smith shows up in England and confronts Aubrey's wife.
(b) Grant claims Aubrey did not sink Waakzaamheid, a Dutch ship-of-war, but a nondescript transport.
(c) Amanda Smith writes and claims she is pregnant by him.
(d) Grant claims Aubrey collaborated with the Americans while in Boston.

6. What does Pellworm say about the voyage?
(a) That it is doomed.
(b) That they should go forward as fast as possible.
(c) That they should turn back.
(d) That they should pull into a quiety bay and wait for a few days.

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

8. Where do the Catalan forces go?
(a) Home.
(b) They flee inland.
(c) They stay there and help the English get established.
(d) They are captured and put in the dungeon at the fortress.

9. Who leads the forces at Grimsholm?
(a) Casanova de la Illia.
(b) Ramon Casanova.
(c) Ramon d'Ullastreti Casademon.
(d) The Duke of Casaromana.

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

11. What does Aubrey discuss with Maturin at this point in the book?
(a) A technical discussion of loading procedures for getting the right trim.
(b) A rather technical discusssion of time and navigation.
(c) An involved discussion of the merits of his wife versus Amanda Smith.
(d) A technical discussion of sail shapes.

12. What does Pellworm predict as he is put ashore?
(a) The weather to break.
(b) The weather to worsen.
(c) A sneak attack by the French.
(d) More disasters.

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

14. What is the Minnie?
(a) A local transport known as a fast sailor.
(b) A French packet.
(c) A fishing vessel.
(d) A small pirate vessel.

15. What does Maturin hint to Aubrey at Aubrey's home?
(a) That Sophie may be pregnant again.
(b) That Aubrey will soon be back in command on a vessel.
(c) That Maturin will help Aubrey financially.
(d) That Aubrey should refuse all correspondence from Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jagiello?

2. For what is Aubrey searching?

3. How accurate is Maturin's watch?

4. Where do the transports loaded with Catalan troops go?

5. What does Maturin tell Blaine?

(see the answer keys)

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