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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19, 20, and 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the boat carry a long scythe blade at her prow?
(a) Because her captain is authorized to cut any boat that fails to yield.
(b) In case the boat is attacked.
(c) To cut the tow lines in an emergency.
(d) To cut through the thick weeds that grow in the water.

2. What does Hornblower do at Oxford?
(a) Files a complaint with the ship's owner.
(b) Goes back to his cabin.
(c) Leaves his wife and child in the care of a physician.
(d) Disembarks to finish the journey on horse.

3. Who is Doctor Eisenbeiss?
(a) The doctor who treats Hornblower's children's smallpox.
(b) The King's physician.
(c) The Royal Navy Admiralty's physician.
(d) The new surgeon for the Atropos.

4. What sort of affect does Hornblower maintain?
(a) Icy and reserved.
(b) Angry.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Affable.

5. Who is one person who places the explosives under the wreck?
(a) McCullum.
(b) Looney.
(c) Hammer.
(d) Headley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom is Hornblower invited to dine?

3. Who is Lord Cuthbert Collingwood?

4. Where is the fuse placed?

5. What does Hornblower say will happen to the doctor if Eisenbeiss contravenes the mutiny acts?

(see the answer key)

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