2. What is causing contention among the ship's officers?
(a) One of them has accused another of cheating at dice.
(b) One of them has accused another of cheating at cards.
(c) How the prize money is being divided.
(d) Clarissa.

3. Who performs the marriage ceremony between Oakes and Clarissa?
(a) The first mate who happens to also be a preacher.
(b) Maturin.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) Reverend Nathaniel Martin.

4. What does the Ã‰clair want with the Surprise?
(a) To deliver several new crew members.
(b) To deliver mail and new orders.
(c) To bring a new commander and take Aubrey to his new ship assignment.
(d) To search for stowaways.

5. What does Aubrey host as the Surprise heads for its new assignment?
(a) A sword fighting contest.
(b) Dinner for the officers aboard the vessel that delivers the new orders.
(c) A rig climbing contest.
(d) A wedding dinner.

6. What do Maturin and Aubrey agree on about Clarissa?
(a) She is no great beauty.
(b) She is strikingly beautiful.
(c) She is rather coarse.
(d) She is rather quiet.

7. For what will they use the harpooned creature?
(a) A wedding dinner for Oakes and Clarissa.
(b) To stuff as a trophy on the outer bulkhead.
(c) To sell at the next port for fresh fruit.
(d) Bait to catch more fish.

8. What does Aubrey inspect with Tom?
(a) The ropes.
(b) The cable tiers.
(c) The galley.
(d) The rigging.

9. What does Maturin start having about Clarissa?
(a) Concerns about her health.
(b) Premonitions.
(c) Erotic dreams.
(d) Misgivings.

10. Where is Clarissa Oakes?
(a) On board Aubrey's vessel.
(b) In Port Jackson.
(c) In Java.
(d) In Port-au-Prince.

11. Who owns the vessel?
(a) Maturin.
(b) The Dutch government.
(c) Aubrey.
(d) The English naval department.

12. What positions do Davidge and West hold on the Surprise?
(a) 3rd mate and steward.
(b) 1st and 3rd mates.
(c) 2nd mate and steward.
(d) 2nd and 3rd mates.

13. What color is the bolt of silk which Aubrey has?
(a) Scarlet.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Pale blue.

14. What does Aubrey note among the crew?
(a) Despondency.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Much merriment and amusement.

15. What do Aubrey and the crew do every morning?
(a) Have an officer's meeting and an enlisted men's meeting.
(b) Check the cannonades.
(c) Flood the ballast and pump out the seawater.
(d) Look over the rigging carefully.