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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The morning after the Captain's fall, the surgeon says that the Captain is _______________.
(a) Not fit for duty.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Insensible.
(d) Weak.

3. At the end of Chapter 10, how many of the privateers' schooners are destroyed?
(a) None.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) All.

4. "D.D." in the ship's books after a shipman's name means _____________.
(a) Done, discharged.
(b) Dumb, discharged.
(c) Dead, discharged.
(d) Dead, dumb.

5. The ship's surgeon has to administer a heavy dose of _______ to set the Captain's fractured nose.
(a) Rum.
(b) Coffee.
(c) An opiate.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What town is farther up the Bay from the battery?

2. While Bush fights off revolting Spanish prisoners, he is wounded _____ times and requires _____ stitches to secure the wounds.

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

4. Admiral Lambert renames La Gaditana the ________.

5. Why does Hornblower get angry with himself in Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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