2. Why do whaling ships have prominent crow's nests?
(a) To be able to bombard the whale from a goodly height.
(b) To signal other ships that a particular whale is a ship's find.
(c) To facilitate spotting whales.
(d) To balance the ship when a whale carcass is attached.

3. When does Maturin bleed the entire crew?
(a) When one of the wives comes down with malaria.
(b) When one man comes down with typhus.
(c) When one man seems to have the plague.
(d) When the ship enters the tropics.

4. What does Aubrey feel compelled to do concerning Hollom?
(a) Give him some money.
(b) Fight a duel for him.
(c) Offer him a position aboard Surprise.
(d) Report to Admiral Stearns about Hollom's incompetence.

5. Who is Mr. Wray?
(a) A special ops undercover British agent.
(b) A French spy.
(c) Maturin's oldest and best friend.
(d) A retired British lawyer.

6. Who acts as Second Lieutenant?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Hollom.
(c) Allen.
(d) Mowett.

7. What does Maturin do with the blood from the crew?
(a) Throws it out.
(b) Uses it to trap mosquitoes.
(c) Uses it to create an antidote.
(d) Uses it to catch several large sharks.

8. How does Surprise send mail home?
(a) With a private British schooner.
(b) With a Dutch freighter.
(c) With a British man-o-war they meet up with.
(d) With the Indiamen.

9. What does Wray constantly work to do?
(a) Support Maturin.
(b) Ferret out double spies for British intelligence.
(c) Destroy Maturin.
(d) Finding new species of plants in the West Indies.

10. How were Maturin and Mrs. Fielding rumored to once be associated?
(a) As business partners.
(b) As having an affair.
(c) As assassins.
(d) As undercover British spies.

11. What does Maturin do pro bono?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Performs surgery for local indigents.
(c) Sends specimens to the British Naturlist Society.
(d) Gathers intelligence for the British.

12. What good news does Surprise receive?
(a) French navy lost a huge battle recently.
(b) USS Norfolk is behind schedule.
(c) USS Constitution has been captured.
(d) Dutch merchants are running from the Americans.

13. From where is Padeen Coleman?
(a) Scotland.
(b) England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Wales.

14. What happens to over half of the whales killed?
(a) They are brought successfully to port.
(b) They have no oil and are sunk.
(c) They are eaten by sharks.
(d) They are lost and not rendered into oil.

15. With whom does Surprise rendezvous unexpectedly?
(a) The HMS Dagger.
(b) A French privateer.
(c) The USS Constitution.
(d) Several Indiamen.