2. Who gave Villiers the diamond necklace?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Villiers' deceased husband.
(c) Villiers's deceased fiance.
(d) Maturin.

3. What is the town celebrating?
(a) The news of Shannon's victory.
(b) That the Napoleonic Wars are over.
(c) That Napoleon is dead.
(d) That the War of 1812 is over.

4. How does Aubrey act at the ball?
(a) Socially competent but not interested in the talk.
(b) Brooding.
(c) Gay.
(d) Indifferent.

5. How is Villiers' appearance at the ball?
(a) She is wearing a lovely gown but no jewelry.
(b) She is wearing black for the death of her husband.
(c) Respledent.
(d) Subdued in greys because she feels ill.

6. Who is circulating slander about Aubrey?
(a) Kimber.
(b) First Lieutenant Grant.
(c) Villiers.
(d) Smith.

7. Who is Kimber?
(a) Aubrey's brother-in-law.
(b) Aubrey's business agent.
(c) Aubrey's cousin and lawyer.
(d) Aubrey's best friend back in England.

8. What do Aubrey, Maturin and Villiers do to effect a return to England?
(a) They take a private merchant vessel.
(b) They have to wait until later in the summer.
(c) They are onboard the fast packet with the original communiqué from Broke.
(d) They take a slower packet.

9. What happens to the crew on that schooner?
(a) They are hung as mutineers.
(b) They save the ship eventually and limp back to Boston.
(c) They sink with their ship and drown.
(d) It is rescued by the other allowing the English packet to escape.

10. What does Villiers confide to Maturin?
(a) That she is pregnant.
(b) That she loves him.
(c) That she left all her money in the hotel in Boston in her haste to leave.
(d) That she is actually already married to Harry Johnson.

11. For what is everyone waiting anxiously?
(a) The coming of the new ambassador from the United States.
(b) For the return of two packets with further orders for Aubrey and Maturin.
(c) The coming of the new ambassador from Germany.
(d) For Captain Broke's wounds to heal.

12. Who joins Aubrey at his home?
(a) Maturin.
(b) Dalglissh.
(c) Villiers.
(d) Broke.

13. What has Villiers recently become?
(a) An American citizen.
(b) A Brazilian citizen.
(c) A Canadian citizen.
(d) An English citizen.

14. Who is Beck?
(a) The owner of the Inn where Maturin is staying.
(b) Another doctor who teaches at the medical college.
(c) A local intelligence officer.
(d) The man who brought Maturin a rare plant specimen.

15. About what does Aubrey muse during his and Sophie's reunion?
(a) Clocks.
(b) Children.
(c) Death.
(d) Illness.