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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aubrey offer during the planning of the mission?
(a) A toast to success.
(b) Knowledge about a back way into Grisholm from a sea cave.
(c) His own sword for Maturin to use as part of his "uniform."
(d) Advice on how Maturin should dress when approaching Grisholm.

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

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

4. 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 around an island that would keep the ship hidden.
(d) A passage through the treacherous reefs.

5. Why is Pellworm uncomfortable?
(a) He says there are bad omens about the voyage.
(b) He is afraid of encountering the French.
(c) He does not like the Catalans.
(d) He does not like the British.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Aubrey warn in a small boat?

2. Who is Pelloworm?

3. What are the seas like as the convoy travels onward?

4. What does Pellworm say about the voyage?

5. What does Aubrey discuss with Maturin at this point in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the Ariel sails through the narrow Baltic entrance?

2. Briefly describe Ariel's Senior Lieutenant, Hyde.

3. Describe the chase scene when the Ariel goes after the Minnie.

4. Briefly describe the Ariel, the ship of which Aubrey assumes command.

5. What is the result of the meeting between Maturin and his Godfather?

6. What does Aubrey give a technical discussion of and how does he replace the broken chronometer?

7. Why is Aubrey concerned when there is stormy weather?

8. Who does the Ariel encounter and what does Aubrey decide to do?

9. Why is Hyde cutting Jagiello's meat and what happens at dinner one evening when Hyde does so?

10. What transpires in the meeting between Sir Joseph Blaine and Maturin?

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