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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hornblower suffers from ________________.
(a) A stomach ulcer.
(b) Seasickness.
(c) Paranoid schizophrenia .
(d) Migraine headaches.

2. When Hornblower states that he wishes they were going into action rather than running away, Bush calls him a ________________.
(a) Fire-eater.
(b) Fire-brand.
(c) Brave man.
(d) Crazy man.

3. ________ takes over the charge of the boats after one of the lieutenants dies.
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Wellard.
(c) James.
(d) Bush.

4. What is the consequence for being caught speaking mutinously in secret?
(a) Court-marshal.
(b) Walking the plank.
(c) Being thrown overboard.
(d) Death by hanging.

5. The surgeon's assistants are _____________.
(a) Coleman and Booth.
(b) Coleman and Pierce.
(c) None of the answers are correct.
(d) Hobbs and Pierce.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who gives the orders for the ship to be dispatched?

4. What does Hornblower do on the quarterdeck?

5. To what does the 19th Article pertain?

(see the answer key)

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