2. Where are the nests?
(a) In vast caves.
(b) In huge rubber trees.
(c) On the cliffs overlooking the ocean.
(d) Buried in the sand.

3. What do the attackers do as they retreat?
(a) Drag several sailors with them.
(b) Kill their wounded.
(c) Burn the schooner.
(d) Bow to the English sailors.

4. How had Fox behaved?
(a) Intrepid.
(b) Increasingly irrational and haughty.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Knowledgeable.

5. How does Kesegaran get to the island?
(a) The slaver ship she was on wrecks.
(b) In a proa.
(c) On a French privateer.
(d) She lives there.

6. Who does Maturin encounter that he knows on the trip on the junk?
(a) One of the Chinese.
(b) One of the pirates.
(c) One of the sailors on the French frigate.
(d) One of the sailors on the French privateer.

7. How does Maturin spend the next few days after collapsing?
(a) In a semi-delirious state.
(b) Sleeping and eating.
(c) Creating a concoction for his problem.
(d) Resting and reading his nature books.

8. Why is the Nutmeg of Consolation readied for sea in haste?
(a) Napoleon is gathering his forces near Brest.
(b) The former Governor needs to be at his new post immediately.
(c) They are going to try to catch Cornélie.
(d) There is a bad storm moving in.

9. What suddenly lands on the beach?
(a) A huge number of jelly fish.
(b) A vast war canoe.
(c) A whale.
(d) Pieces of the French privateer.

10. What does Maturin find when he goes to gather the nests?
(a) Some Chinese children gathering the nests.
(b) A wounded Dyak.
(c) He cannot find them again.
(d) The nests had all been put to the torch by the attackers.

11. What does Aubrey do with the cannons?
(a) Set up a defensive parameter.
(b) Shoot after the retreating attackers to no avail.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sink the attacker's boat.

12. What does Maturin send to a Chinese junk?
(a) A child with a message.
(b) A stack of nests.
(c) A present.
(d) A peace offering.

13. What does the Captain of Marines have his men construct?
(a) A gallows for several mutineers.
(b) A means of desalting the sea water.
(c) Defensive breastworks around the camp.
(d) A system of pipes to bring fresh water to the camp.

14. What passes through the area?
(a) Two French frigates.
(b) No one.
(c) A group of Malaysians.
(d) A sudden storm.

15. To where does Kesegaran agree to carry a message?
(a) Batavia.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Gibraltar.
(d) Tahiti.