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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, 14, and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes ashore to make purchases?
(a) Turner and some assistants.
(b) Hornblower.
(c) The Prince.
(d) Eisenbeiss.

2. Where is Hornblower to proceed?
(a) Malta.
(b) Antigua.
(c) Yurba.
(d) Port Jackson.

3. What is a wherry?
(a) An animal similar to a cow.
(b) A cross between a horse and a special type of donkey.
(c) A rowed craft.
(d) A flat ferry barge.

4. What angers some of the onlookers?
(a) Nothing because they can see the problem.
(b) That the coffin falls and cracks open.
(c) That the barge sinks with the coffin onboard.
(d) Hornblower's breach in protocol.

5. What do the three Sinhalese divers do?
(a) Insult Hornblower by accident.
(b) Sleep on the fore deck.
(c) Dive for pearls.
(d) Only obey McCullum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the one officer Hornblower remembers clearly?

2. What is the reason for the lack of flotsam?

3. With what does Looney return after diving down to the ship?

4. What happens to the lead barge?

5. Why do they want to go in through the lazarette?

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