2. Who have all taken passage in the same boat?
(a) All the ship's officers.
(b) The old crewmates from Leopard.
(c) The two doctors.
(d) All the bosun crew.

3. What does Captain Lambert decide to do?
(a) Try to disable the Constitution by canon fire and then run.
(b) Close the enemy directly and take her by boarding.
(c) Try to outflank them and get into open sea where the Java is faster.
(d) Engage long-range canons until it is absolutely necessary to board.

4. What do the men do to the food and water in the boat?
(a) Divide it equally among the men.
(b) They didn't get any food or water in the boat.
(c) Eat it before it spoils.
(d) Ration it.

5. Over what does Maturin agonize when on board the La Flèche?
(a) How to categorize some of the odd species he has collected.
(b) Why he made such a fool of himself on the cricket field.
(c) What he will tell his wife who did not think he was returning to her.
(d) His numerous natural history specimens.

6. What do Aubrey and the Leopard crew volunteer to do?
(a) Serve the forward gun battery.
(b) Man the rigging.
(c) Guard the diplomat and his retinue.
(d) Serve on the boarding crew.

7. How long is the life boat in which Aubrey and his men float?
(a) 24 feet.
(b) 32 feet.
(c) 14 feet.
(d) 18 feet.

8. What separates all the life boats from each other?
(a) The incompetence of some of the crew.
(b) It is regulation to do so.
(c) Anger among the crew members.
(d) Foul weather.

9. What has been the outcome of those encounters?
(a) The Americans and English have split victories.
(b) The Americans have been decisively victorious.
(c) Nothing decisive has been accomplished.
(d) Aubrey is unsure of the outcomes.

10. What seems a possibility to the men after a few days?
(a) They are on the wrong course.
(b) Starvation.
(c) They will sight land soon.
(d) They will start encountering other vessels as they have entered a shipping lane.

11. What does Maturin realize?
(a) That Aubrey is still in danger of dying.
(b) That Aubrey is in grave danger.
(c) That Wogan is in Boston.
(d) That Wogan believes the false papers to have originated with Aubrey

12. What does Evans present to Maturin for Aubrey?
(a) A collection.
(b) Aubrey's sword.
(c) A ascot.
(d) A pin for valor.

13. How does Maturin almost make a serious faux pas?
(a) By almost missing the Captain's table.
(b) By telling the first mate what Maturin thinks of the mate's mother.
(c) By forgetting the Captain's name.
(d) By asking to examine the eye socket of a one-eyed sailor.

14. How does what the Leopard men do help the Java?
(a) They are not just dead weight.
(b) They free up Java's men to board the Constitution.
(c) It relieves some marines for small-arms work in the fighting tops.
(d) They can concentrate on long-distance warfare.

15. What vessel will Aubrey be captaining once he arrives in England?
(a) The Northhampton.
(b) The Leopard after its refitting.
(c) The York.
(d) The Acasta.