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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the officer on watch during the Captain's reading?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Buckland.
(c) Bush.
(d) Roberts.

2. How many years of experience does Bush have?
(a) Less than 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

3. Who is the first to say that the Captain has been hurt?
(a) Wellard.
(b) Whiting.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Bush.

4. Wellard is punished by being beaten with ______________.
(a) Captain Sawyer's leather strap.
(b) Captain Sawyer's silver-mounted cane.
(c) Mr. Booth's whip.
(d) Mr. Booth's silver-mounted cane.

5. At the end of Chapter 6, what is still "a living force in the ship"?
(a) Fear of the Captain.
(b) Fear of Yellow Fever.
(c) Fear of starvation.
(d) Fear of mutiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Captain climb down the hatchway?

2. ________ was officer of the watch during the Captain's fall.

3. When the Captain fell, he landed on his ___________.

4. After taking an altitude reading, Hornblower says that he's never been ________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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