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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked how the Captain fell down the hatchway, Hornblower replies _______________.
(a) I do not know, sir."
(b) "Someone must have pushed him."
(c) "I think he tripped on the ladder."
(d) "I think he must have overbalanced."

2. Which items are locked in the Captain's desk?
(a) Secret orders.
(b) Bottles of rum.
(c) Journals.
(d) Letters.

3. At each corner of the fort there is a small ________.
(a) Tower.
(b) Battery.
(c) Bastion.
(d) Flag.

4. Half the ________ trade comes up through the Bay.
(a) Carribbean.
(b) West Indies.
(c) World.
(d) French.

5. In what could hot shot be heated?
(a) Battery on land.
(b) Battery on a ship.
(c) Kiln on land.
(d) Kiln on a ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ had been Captain Sawyer's toady and informer.

2. Bush reflects that he moves slower than Hornblower during the landing party's attack on the fort because Bush has a ________________.

3. The morning after the Captain's fall, the surgeon says that the Captain is _______________.

4. Both Bush and Hornblower have _______ for breakfast after they have successfully taken the fort.

5. Each cannon shot weighs _______________.

(see the answer key)

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