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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, 17, and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of manner does McCullum maintain?
(a) Affable.
(b) Brusque and condescending.
(c) Inquisitive.
(d) Meek.

2. What is one Turkish ship like that Hornblower notices?
(a) It is flying French colours.
(b) It is smaller than Atropos but carries far more carronades.
(c) It is obsolete but still much more heavily armed than Atropos.
(d) It is signaling to someone else.

3. What is removed from McCullum's wound?
(a) Just a tiny bit of clothing fragment.
(b) A ball and clothing fragments.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Just a piece of the ball.

4. What is discovered about many of the casks of meat on board the Atropos?
(a) The rats ate them.
(b) They are inedible.
(c) They are much better quality than usual.
(d) They are tough, tasteless but useable.

5. What does Hornblower send ashore?
(a) Doctor Eisenbeiss.
(b) The Prince's excess baggage.
(c) The four monkeys.
(d) The parrot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower find stressful?

2. How long would the overland passage have been that Hornblower just traveled by boat in less than a day?

3. What is Lieutenant Jones' full name?

4. What happens to the horse driver?

5. What does Hornblower have his crew do?

(see the answer key)

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