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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. How is Hyde as a sailor and officer?
(a) Takes foolish chances.
(b) Overbearing.
(c) Lacks self confidence.
(d) Reliable and uninmaginative.

7. What is the relationship between Maturin and the commander at Grimsholm?
(a) They both serve in the intelligence corps.
(b) They both wanted to marry the same woman many years ago.
(c) They are brother-in-laws.
(d) The commander is Maturin's Catalan godfather.

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

9. How does Maturin feel about the reunion?
(a) Hesitation.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Great joy.
(d) Trepidation.

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

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

12. What is Jagiello supposed to be doing?
(a) Infiltrating the Barbary Coast group.
(b) Teaching Dalgliesh how to sail around the reefs near Gibraltar.
(c) Advising and observing.
(d) Pretending to be someone he is not.

13. How long does it take to get the Minnie ready to sail?
(a) An hour or two.
(b) A week.
(c) Three days.
(d) Many hours.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the crew of the Ariel?

2. Why is Pellworm uncomfortable?

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

4. Who does Maturin greet?

5. Who is waiting to greet the crew of the Ariel as they come ashore?

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