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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Hyde?
(a) Ariel's bosun chief.
(b) Ariel's second mate.
(c) Ariel's stewart.
(d) Ariel's senior lieutenant.

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

8. What happens when the Minnie is chased as planned?
(a) It is fired upon and turns and flees.
(b) It is fired upon and damaged badly.
(c) It makes dock without drawing hostile fire.
(d) It is fired upon and sunk.

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

10. What does Maturin think the meeting with the commander of Grimsholm will require?
(a) Nimble thinking.
(b) Slow, methodical interaction.
(c) He is unsure.
(d) Lots of patience.

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

12. What moves into the area?
(a) A huge pod of humpback whales.
(b) A huge pod of bottlenose dolphins.
(c) A thick fog.
(d) A large storm system.

13. What do Maturin and Jagiello do one foggy morning?
(a) Practice hand-to-hand combat.
(b) Practice their swordplay.
(c) Go aloft.
(d) Jump overboard to save someone who fell off the flying bridge.

14. With whom do the transports rendezvous?
(a) A group of French civilians.
(b) No one.
(c) Several prisoner transports.
(d) A commercial fleet.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Blaine brief Maturin about the meeting with the commander of Grimsholm?

2. What is the Minnie?

3. Who joins Aubrey in chasing the Minnie?

4. Why does Minnie slow down?

5. What do Ariel and her transports manage to weather?

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