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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maturin tell Blaine?
(a) Maturin will accept a position at a medical college.
(b) Maturin will go back to Boston.
(c) Maturin will accept an assignment on the Shannon.
(d) Maturin will travel to Grimsholm.

2. Who joins Aubrey in chasing the Minnie?
(a) The Shannon.
(b) The Blarney.
(c) The Humbug.
(d) The Java.

3. What does the Ariel do?
(a) Goes back to the English fleet to report of the failure to convince Grimsholm.
(b) Tries to sneak into the west end of the bay to find a way to take the fortress.
(c) Leads several transports of British troops into the harbor.
(d) Goes back to open sea to plan a rescue of Maturin.

4. What is the Ariel?
(a) The ship Aubrey assumes command of.
(b) The fortress where Maturin will hold his meeting.
(c) The ship that brings Amanda Smith to England.
(d) The ship that Maturin captures as a pirate vessel.

5. How is the crew of the Ariel?
(a) About 80 percent are on their first sea assignment.
(b) Generally knowlegeable but not ambitious.
(c) Disciplined and well trained.
(d) Slovenly.

6. 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.

7. Why would Aubrey pretend to chase the Minnie?
(a) To distract the men in Grisholm.
(b) So Maturin could look as though he is not with the English.
(c) To enhance the impression that the Minnie is a friendly transport.
(d) To give his sailors some practice under hostile conditions.

8. For what does Aubrey use Maturin's hack watch?
(a) To replace the chronometer.
(b) The count the wave cycles per minute.
(c) To replace the sextant.
(d) To replace the compass.

9. Where is the convoy of which the Ariel is part traveling at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) The Canaberra Sea.
(b) The Baltic straits.
(c) The Ionic Sea.
(d) The Straits of Gibralter.

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

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

12. Why is celestial navigation out of the question?
(a) They do not have a sextant.
(b) The charts for extrapolation were lost overboard in the last fight.
(c) Their navigator died while at Grimsholm.
(d) Overcast skies.

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

14. Who is the HMS Jason chasing?
(a) The French ship-of-war Lafayette.
(b) The French ship-of-war Médusae.
(c) French ship-of-war Marsailles.
(d) No one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Minnie?

2. What does Aubrey have to do when the people in the small boat do not heed his warning?

3. What does Maturin try to teach Jagiello?

4. What is the relationship between Maturin and the commander at Grimsholm?

5. Where do the Catalan forces go?

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