2. With whom do the transports rendezvous?
(a) No one.
(b) A group of French civilians.
(c) A commercial fleet.
(d) Several prisoner transports.

3. What does Pellworm predict as he is put ashore?
(a) More disasters.
(b) The weather to worsen.
(c) A sneak attack by the French.
(d) The weather to break.

4. Why would Grisholm give the Minnie docking privileges?
(a) Because the owner of the Minnie is in Grisholm at the moment.
(b) Because the Minnie is bringing the new relief commander to Grisholm.
(c) Because the Minnie is bringing supplies to Grisholm
(d) Because the Minnie is known to be friendly to the French.

5. What does Maturin think would happen to an unfamiliar warship approaching Grimsholm?
(a) He is not sure what would happen.
(b) It would arouse suspicians.
(c) It would put the Grimsholm soldiers on high alert.
(d) It would be fired upon.

6. Who sends Aubrey in the right direction to find a vessel to capture?
(a) Samaurez.
(b) Dalgliesh.
(c) Maturin.
(d) Jiegello.

7. What are the seas like as the convoy travels onward?
(a) Calm.
(b) Twenty-foot waves.
(c) Unsettled.
(d) Glassy.

8. What does Maturin try to teach Jagiello?
(a) How to overcome his bad looks.
(b) Nothing; Jagiello is just a character in a book.
(c) How to use a prothesis that Maturin makes for him.
(d) About life at sea.

9. Who is Hyde?
(a) Ariel's bosun chief.
(b) Ariel's second mate.
(c) Ariel's senior lieutenant.
(d) Ariel's stewart.

10. Who is the HMS Jason chasing?
(a) The French ship-of-war Lafayette.
(b) No one.
(c) French ship-of-war Marsailles.
(d) The French ship-of-war Médusae.

11. What is Jagiello supposed to be doing?
(a) Advising and observing.
(b) Teaching Dalgliesh how to sail around the reefs near Gibraltar.
(c) Infiltrating the Barbary Coast group.
(d) Pretending to be someone he is not.

12. Why is celestial navigation out of the question?
(a) Their navigator died while at Grimsholm.
(b) Overcast skies.
(c) The charts for extrapolation were lost overboard in the last fight.
(d) They do not have a sextant.

13. What does Aubrey discuss with Maturin at this point in the book?
(a) A rather technical discusssion of time and navigation.
(b) A technical discussion of sail shapes.
(c) A technical discussion of loading procedures for getting the right trim.
(d) An involved discussion of the merits of his wife versus Amanda Smith.

14. Why would Aubrey pretend to chase the Minnie?
(a) To give his sailors some practice under hostile conditions.
(b) To enhance the impression that the Minnie is a friendly transport.
(c) So Maturin could look as though he is not with the English.
(d) To distract the men in Grisholm.

15. Why does Aubrey get struck with a piece of hard meat?
(a) A sailor gets angry and throws it at another sailor but misses and it hits Aubrey.
(b) Hyde is clumsy at cutting food.
(c) Aurbrey walks in the kitchen to get tea when the cook is tossing the meat across the room to a bin.
(d) Jagiello gets frustrated trying to cut his meat with his remaining hand and slams his fork down and sends the meat flying into Aubrey.