"Pirates!" by Celia Rees Trivia Quiz

Answer: Nancy's wet nurse

Nancy says she has always known William and his mother, Mari, because Mari was her wet nurse and William was her playmate.

Answer: The Amelia

When he is twelve, William's father sends him off to work as a cabin boy on one of Nancy's father's ships. She is bound for Kingstown Jamaica, straight, or so William thinks. Nancy doesn't have time to tell him the Amelia is a slaver before he leaves, and William doesn't know until they've cleared the Channel.

The Sally-Anne is the ship Nancy sails for Bath on, the Deliverance is what Broom's crew later names their ship, and the Dolphin seems to be one of the most common ship's names ever.

Answer: Mr. James Phillips Calthorpe

Nancy is envied for his attentions by some of the girls, but Nancy doesn't like him at all, finding him to be, "shallow and vain with a vastly inflated opinion of himself." When he later insults both William and Nancy, Nancy punches him in the nose, and never needs to worry about his suits again.

Answer: From apoplexy

If you don't know, an apoplexy is a stroke, and those were much harder to recover from in the 1800's than they are nowadays. Before he dies, Nancy's father makes his two oldest sons, Joseph and Henry, promise to take care of the family's debts.

Answer: Diamonds

Nancy mentions it during the funeral for her father. Everyone seems to think Bartholome is being too showy in his love of God with his large cross and falling to his knees in genuflection halfway to the alter.

Answer: Niall

When he introduces himself to Nancy he says, "I'm Graham, Niall Graham. Ship's surgeon. I've come to see how you are." This is when Nancy is feeling seasick onboard the Sally-Anne. Graham cheers her up by talking to her, and amazingly he knows William and agrees to helps Nancy send a message to him. Graham is one of Nancy's closest friends, and later wants her to pose as his daughter.

Answer: True

Since there is no one else around, the two go swimming. Minerva says that the slaves believe that, "It is obeah. A place of spirit." And once they are leaving, Nancy agrees that "the pool had done its magic."

Answer: Sweet potato and beans

Joseph complains that the food is too spicy, and therefore mostly drinks rum the whole evening.

Answer: Dahomey

After Nancy befriends Minerva, Phillis will sit with them while shelling beans and tell about her past. She usually starts with her capture in Dahomey. Her father was accused of plotting against the king, so the whole family was arrested and sold into slavery.

Answer: Hold down a boy whose leg he is amputating

At first Graham pretends he doesn't recognize Nancy in her men's dress, but after she manages not to faint while he amputates the leg, he says, "You did well. Thank you. I didn't expect to see you, Miss Nancy. Not under these circumstances."

Answer: A painted pig's bladder over a couple of sticks

The device Broom designs for the Deliverance is supposed to be a cutlass, a skull and crossbones, and an hourglass, the meaning being, "Time is running out and it will be death to resist." However, Jessop, the sail maker, cannot draw as well as he can sew. Nancy ends up making the device; drawing the skull from the ones she remembers in memorials at St. Mary Redcliffe church, and borrowing a cutlass from a passing pirate.

Answer: False

After the first fight, Nancy suddenly realizes the possibility of coming face to face with William, and is worried about what he might find her too changed. Graham assures her, saying, "When I look at you, I still see that girl I met on the Sally-Anne - not much different.

Her eyes still brighten when she talks about her sailor lad, like sun striking the water. She is still a little given to melancholy, and somewhat to worry, but she has a heart that is kind and true, and a brave and generous spirit, all the better for having been tested." He also finds her more knowledgeable about the world.

Answer: Pelling

There is no one like the quartermaster on an ordinary vessel, and Ignatius Pelling is a very good one. Since Broom is a new captain, he needs extra help relating to the crew in a fair way. Pelling is the one who comes up with the idea to pose as a merchant ship and sell off all their plunder.

Answer: A blue coat with red bars

Vincent invites them to "raid" his clothes chest so they can be especially fancy while they are Jupiter Jones and Davey Gordon. Other than the blue coat with red bars, Nancy wears the articles of clothing above, which Minerva picks out for her. The blue coat is Nancy's favorite, which is why she asks Minerva to wear it.

Answer: False

Nancy is better at swordplay because of her fencing lessons when she was younger. When Minerva fights Limster, he runs at her with his cutlass, and Nancy's fingers twitch to be fighting in Minerva's place.

Answer: Keel-haul him

At first the crew makes it seem all in good fun to keel-haul the captain, and I imagine Broom is hoping that is what it is, but it's not. All the officers and some of the original members of the crew are tied up, and Broom would most likely be killed except that Vincent's ship appears in the nick of time.

Answer: Off the coast of Madagascar

Nancy hopes going to Madagascar will confuse Bartholome and make him give up his search for her, or at least detour him. But he finds her again, and it is then that they have their final battle.

Answer: Yes

Abe Reynolds prepared it for them, with silk sheets on the bed that are, "courtesy of the Brazilian geezer," better known as Bartholome.

Answer: Youth, freedom, and booty

After they drink they throw their cups in the water, and as they stood at the rail, laughing together, Nancy says she, "Truly believed there was nothing she could not do."

Answer: Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates

Graham has been telling Mr. Defoe of his experiences while being on the account, and tells Nancy about it in a letter, and that is what prompted Nancy to begin her tale of adventure on the high seas. We can only hope Nancy will continue her life story in another book.