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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the lead barge?
(a) It springs a leak.
(b) It sinks in under a minute.
(c) It rams an underwater obstacle.
(d) It spins sideways.

3. Where are Hornblower and St. Vincent maneuvered?
(a) To a smaller group of people.
(b) To speak in private with Admiral Nelson's widow.
(c) Out the door to the gardens.
(d) To the balcony overlooking the Thames.

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

5. What does Hornblower declare about the men on the London brig?
(a) That they are pirates.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That they can have amnesty.
(d) That they are to be tied up and thrown overboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is parallel to the canal?

2. What does Hornblower do on the lengthy voyage to Gibraltar?

3. About what does Maria fret?

4. What does Hornblower convince a businessman to do?

5. What is the Speedwell?

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