2. What does Maturin hope the Cornélie will be without?
(a) A captain.
(b) Enough money for a good refitting.
(c) Gunpowder.
(d) A surgeon.

3. What does Maturin want to do about the Cornélie?
(a) Change its name to something that sounds less French.
(b) Pursue and destroy it.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Make an agreement with the captain of it.

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

5. Upon what did the ship wreck?
(a) Rocks.
(b) A submerged reef.
(c) A submerged vessel that wrecked earlier.
(d) An iceberg.

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

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

8. Who receives the commission for the HMS Nutmeg of Consolation?
(a) Pullings.
(b) Aubrey.
(c) Brown.
(d) Fox.

9. Why is Maturin concerned about his wife?
(a) Because she is pregnant.
(b) Because she is very ill.
(c) Because his fortune is lost.
(d) Because her brother is trying to take her money.

10. For what purpose are the bribes?
(a) To delay Cornélie's refitting and resupply.
(b) He does not give any bribes.
(c) To get Matruin aboard the Cornélie for a trip back to England.
(d) To assure that the harbormaster will give the Chinese safe passage.

11. Why does Maturin deliver the treaty?
(a) Aubrey orders him to do so.
(b) There is no one else available to do so.
(c) Because he wants to learn about its provisions.
(d) Edwards is ill.

12. Why do several new men join the crew?
(a) To bring the vessel to full strength.
(b) To get a ride back to England.
(c) To help as prize crew.
(d) Aubrey does not hire any new men.

13. What is critical after the attack?
(a) Food supplies are critically low.
(b) A way to summon help.
(c) A way to retrieve the tools.
(d) A way to find more wood for cooking fires.

14. To whom does the Chinese junk have to pay tribute?
(a) Pirates.
(b) No one.
(c) The Dutch.
(d) The French.

15. What does Fox leave with his clerk?
(a) A sketch of the treaty territories.
(b) A copy of the treaty.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A thousand pounds.