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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aubrey call the view from the crow's nest?
(a) Day blink.
(b) Blink out.
(c) God's eye.
(d) God's blink.

3. 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.

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

5. 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) Hyde is clumsy at cutting food.
(d) Aurbrey walks in the kitchen to get tea when the cook is tossing the meat across the room to a bin.

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

7. What disaster strikes the Ariel?
(a) Its pinion rudder breaks.
(b) The mizzenmast cracks.
(c) There is an explosion onboard.
(d) Its chronometer breaks.

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

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

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

11. How does Maturin prepare for his mission to Grimsholm?
(a) Rather casually.
(b) With intensive study.
(c) He does not attempt to prepare in the least.
(d) With minute planning.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Minnie slow down?

2. Who sends Aubrey in the right direction to find a vessel to capture?

3. How accurate is Maturin's watch?

4. What happens as Aubrey is trying to get the Ariel away from The Thatcher?

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

(see the answer keys)

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