2. What does Aubrey insinuate about Lord Clonfert?
(a) He is only a minor nobility.
(b) He's a French sympathizer.
(c) He's only captain cause he's a Lord.
(d) Various bizarre stories about him circulate.

3. What has been holding Napoleon back?
(a) The Moors.
(b) British naval strength.
(c) The weather.
(d) The Italians.

4. What does Bertie give Captain Aubrey?
(a) A new command.
(b) A new stripe.
(c) Several official honors.
(d) A reprimand.

5. Who is Dr. McAdam?
(a) Corbett's personal physician and ship's surgeon.
(b) Aubrey's surgeon.
(c) Clonfert's personal physician and ship's surgeon.
(d) Maturin's mentor.

6. How does Aubrey find life at home?
(a) Uninteresting and boring.
(b) Restful.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Fun.

7. What kind of ship is the Néréide?
(a) A forty-eight gun Longship.
(b) A battle cruiser.
(c) A sloop.
(d) A thirty-six gun frigate.

8. What kind of Captain is Corbett known to be?
(a) A rigid disciplinarian and a fighting captain.
(b) A good seaman but lax with his sailors.
(c) Someone to respect but doesn't like to kill.
(d) An easy going man.

9. What will happen in Mauritius if the British military campaign is successful?
(a) An English governor will be installed.
(b) It will be left alone with a nominal British force left there.
(c) It will return to the native population.
(d) A naval base will be established there.

10. Of what does McAdam say Clonfert's physical ailments are the result?
(a) Old war wounds.
(b) Horseback accident as a child.
(c) Genetics.
(d) Mental distress.

11. What is Napoleon trying to conquer?
(a) China.
(b) Turkey.
(c) East Africa.
(d) All of Europe.

12. What do McAdam and Maturin discuss?
(a) Maturin's love of nature.
(b) Aubrey's strange personality.
(c) Corbett's strange personality.
(d) Clonfert's strange personality.

13. What does Aubrey use his station of commodore to do?
(a) To order fine wines.
(b) To fire Corbett.
(c) To request Bonden and Killick, his personal coxswain and steward, be reassigned to his crew.
(d) To have his wife on board.

14. On what type of mathematical problem is Aubrey working?
(a) How to determine longitude at sea.
(b) How to build a pyramid.
(c) How to determine star rotation.
(d) How to raise a suspension bridge.

15. How are the men on the Néréide responding to their Captain?
(a) Agressively.
(b) Indifferently.
(c) Near mutiny.
(d) Enthusiastically.