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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Captain Broke need to do?
(a) Write his official communiqué.
(b) Return to the blockage of Washington.
(c) Join a blockade of the New York harbor.
(d) Supervise the repairs of the Shannon.

2. About what do men comment concerning Villiers?
(a) Her exceptional beauty.
(b) Her reluctance to engage in social conversation.
(c) Her tendency to flitter about.
(d) Her sad countenance.

3. What can prevent a ship from determining its longitude?
(a) A broken chronometer.
(b) A broken gyrocompass.
(c) A broken sextant.
(d) Cloudy skies.

4. How does Smith find Aubrey to be?
(a) Uninteresting.
(b) Gruff.
(c) Easily seduced and socially important.
(d) Arrogant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Ariel?

2. What causes Aubrey some discomfort?

3. Who leads the forces at Grimsholm?

4. Who is known to be enroute to Grimsholm?

5. With whom do the transports rendezvous?

(see the answer key)

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