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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will have to be used to enter the reinforced lazarette?
(a) A diver's bell.
(b) A steel shark cage.
(c) A special cutting tool.
(d) Explosives.

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

3. What does Eisenbeiss say is required if McCullum is to live?
(a) A rare herb.
(b) Eisenbeiss is not sure how to save McCullum.
(c) McCullum has to want to live.
(d) Drastic action.

4. What is the reason for the lack of flotsam?
(a) The ship's timbers have become completely waterlogged.
(b) The larazette is metal and sinks.
(c) The barrel focuses the explosion.
(d) The sand minimizes impact to the ship.

5. On what does Hornblower congratulate himself?
(a) His adroit handling of the Mudir.
(b) His adroit handling of the enmity between Eisenbeiss and McCullum.
(c) His increased knowledge of salvage operations.
(d) His increased ability to hold his breath under water.

6. What does Hornblower have done to the man who fell overboard while climbing the rigging without permission?
(a) Confined to the brig.
(b) Handcuffed and tied to the mast.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Caned a few times.

7. What does Eisenbeiss want to do for McCullum?
(a) Let him die.
(b) Find a shaman who will have the right herbal concoction.
(c) Leave him at a larger island for better medical care.
(d) Remove the bullet surgically.

8. About what does Jones become confused?
(a) Which ship is closest to Cartagena.
(b) Which rigging to use in the approaching storm.
(c) How to replace the cracked pinion.
(d) Who is chasing whom.

9. Why do they want to go in through the lazarette?
(a) It is faced away from the land so the natives cannot see what is going on.
(b) It is the weakest wall of the ship.
(c) It is the only part of the hull not under the sand.
(d) It is where the gold and silver was stored.

10. What does Hornblower call the supplies McCullum takes on board?
(a) Expensive.
(b) Strange.
(c) He has no opinion.
(d) Worthless.

11. Why are more reliable methods not tried first?
(a) They work much more slowly.
(b) They are more dangerous.
(c) McCullum needs to be there and he's not yet up to it.
(d) They are more expensive.

12. What does McCullum determine has to be done to recover the last container of gold?
(a) Someone has to be able to dig under the hull in the sand.
(b) A larger hold must be worked in the larazette.
(c) The entire ship has to be demolished.
(d) The last container of gold is not recoverable.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower do to buy some time to save the man overboard?

2. What does Hornblower give Turner permission to do?

3. How much fuse do they need for the explosives?

4. Why does Hornblower decide not to let Eisenbeiss accompany him?

5. Who fights a duel?

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