3. What are his carpenters and seamen begun building?
(a) A schooner.
(b) A way to haul the ship up off the ocean floor.
(c) Huts for shelter.
(d) A new hull to patch the ship.

4. What does Maturin do to supplement the food supply?
(a) Fish.
(b) Capture wild goats to milk.
(c) Gather roots and berries.
(d) Hunt wild pigs.

5. To where does the junk take the British sailors?
(a) Batavia.
(b) Taiwain.
(c) Hong Kong.
(d) England.

6. Where is Aubrey when Maturin awakes from his illness?
(a) In a fevered coma.
(b) Swimmingl.
(c) At the construction site.
(d) Investigating a shipwreck on the other side of the island.

7. What does Aubrey do to Miller and Oakes?
(a) Turns them before the mast.
(b) Rate them as midshipmen.
(c) Refuse to take them on board.
(d) Put them in the brig.

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

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

10. 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.

11. How long does it take to repulse the attackers?
(a) Twenty-four hours.
(b) Three days.
(c) A week.
(d) Several hours.

12. Why has a Dutch-built ship sunk?
(a) It hit a reef.
(b) It carried the plague.
(c) It was in a fire fight with an English man-o-war.
(d) It was too old for the sea.

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

14. Who owns the Chinese junk?
(a) Li Po.
(b) Je Wong.
(c) Su Je.
(d) Lee Yung.

15. After whom is Aubrey's new ship named?
(a) No one.
(b) A spice his wife loves.
(c) A horse he once owned.
(d) The Sultan of Pulo Prabang.