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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Aubrey get struck with a piece of hard meat?
(a) Aurbrey walks in the kitchen to get tea when the cook is tossing the meat across the room to a bin.
(b) Hyde is clumsy at cutting food.
(c) A sailor gets angry and throws it at another sailor but misses and it hits Aubrey.
(d) Jagiello gets frustrated trying to cut his meat with his remaining hand and slams his fork down and sends the meat flying into Aubrey.

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

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

4. Why does Minnie slow down?
(a) She runs aground a mud flat.
(b) She hits an underground reef.
(c) Her main sail is shredded from the cannon fire from the Ariel.
(d) Her main said and topsail get twisted together.

5. Who does Maturin greet?
(a) His godfather's daughter.
(b) His godfather.
(c) His godfather's son.
(d) His cousin.

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

7. How is Aubrey further slandered?
(a) Amanda Smith writes and claims she is pregnant by him.
(b) Amanda Smith shows up in England and confronts Aubrey's wife.
(c) Grant claims Aubrey did not sink Waakzaamheid, a Dutch ship-of-war, but a nondescript transport.
(d) Grant claims Aubrey collaborated with the Americans while in Boston.

8. With whose fleet does the Ariel rendezvous?
(a) Admiral Hornblower.
(b) Admiral Sir Drake.
(c) Admiral Sir James Saumarez.
(d) Admiral Lord Nelson.

9. What happens as Aubrey is trying to get the Ariel away from The Thatcher?
(a) He is successful but they are way off course.
(b) The ship hits a reef which punctures her hull.
(c) The rudder pinon breaks off.
(d) The linesman hurls the sounding line and knocks out Aubrey.

10. What do the Ariel and Humbug do cooperatively?
(a) Capture the Minnie and straigten out her sails.
(b) Install a new mail sail on the Minnie.
(c) Heave the Minnie off the mud flat.
(d) Repairs the hole in Minnie's hull from the underground reef.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why would Aubrey pretend to chase the Minnie?

3. From what does Hyde suffer?

4. With whom do the transports rendezvous?

5. Why would Grisholm give the Minnie docking privileges?

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