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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the silver in the Speedwell stored?
(a) Pottery.
(b) Chests.
(c) Iron pots.
(d) Bags.

2. What is done with the barrel?
(a) Divers pull it on a long rope into the ship's core.
(b) Divers let it float above the ship.
(c) Divers drop it close to the ship.
(d) Divers place it under the ship.

3. What English ship does the Atropos finally encounter?
(a) HMS Shannon.
(b) HMS Essex.
(c) HMS Nightingale.
(d) HMS Leopard.

4. Where does Atropos see the Castilla?
(a) At Lisbonia.
(b) At Seville.
(c) At Portilla.
(d) At Cartagena.

5. What has leaked?
(a) The fuse house.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The boom.
(d) The explosive jacket.

6. Where is the fuse placed?
(a) In a hole in the sand.
(b) In a floating barrel.
(c) A watertight barrel.
(d) In the water by the hull.

7. How does Hornblower gain information from McCullum?
(a) Bribery.
(b) By threats.
(c) McCullum is still too ill to be of any help.
(d) Patience and humility.

8. What does Hornblower decide to pursue?
(a) A French privateer.
(b) A Spanish privateer.
(c) The band of nomads who robs the Atropos.
(d) Salvaging.

9. What is improbable that Castilla does?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sinks the French man-o-war.
(c) Continues the chase into open seas.
(d) Moves fairly fast even though she is taking on water.

10. Where are McCullum's chances of survival best?
(a) His wound is minor.
(b) Ashore.
(c) On the ship.
(d) Either ashore or on the ship.

11. Where does Eisenbeiss think the bullet is lodged?
(a) In McCullum's right lung.
(b) McCullum's scapula.
(c) In McCullum's shoulder blade.
(d) Next to the heart.

12. To where does Atropos set sail?
(a) Batavia.
(b) Marmorice Bay.
(c) Malta.
(d) Puta Batang.

13. What will prevent entrance into the sunken Speedwell?
(a) A group of hundreds of sharks.
(b) The hatches are all closed.
(c) It is buried too deeply into the sand.
(d) Nothing.

14. What bargain does the Mudir offer Hornblower?
(a) Hand over the treasure and they will live.
(b) Give them 1/4 of the treasure.
(c) Hand over the treasure he's taken on board and he can have the rest he can recover.
(d) Give them half the treasure.

15. Why does Hornblower like the Mudir's suggestion?
(a) Hornblower thinks the Mudir is being accommodating.
(b) It will justify a longer stay.
(c) Because the Mudir is attempting to find the provisions the ship needs.
(d) Hornblower has no opinion on the suggestion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hornblower not concerned about the Castilla?

2. Who purchases the Atropos?

3. What does Hornblower give Turner permission to do?

4. Where is the last container of gold?

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

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