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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are all midshipmen trained NOT to do?
(a) Drink too much rum.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Swear.
(d) Put their hands in their pockets.

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

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

4. Which shipman takes an axe to the fort's wooden door?
(a) Bush.
(b) Silk.
(c) Whiting.
(d) Abbott.

5. What do Bush and Hornblower have to share?
(a) A map.
(b) A canteen.
(c) A telescope.
(d) Breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the phrase, "rope yarn Sunday" mean when the Captain declares it after his reading?

2. Which items are locked in the Captain's desk?

3. "D.D." in the ship's books after a shipman's name means _____________.

4. What infests the ship formerly named the Gaditana while the Spanish prisoners are on board?

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

(see the answer key)

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