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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who can be excused from church services according to the tolerant Admiralty?
(a) Catholics.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Dissenters.
(d) Jews.

2. Hornblower shows recognition that the Captain's behavior is unusual by ______________.
(a) Laughing.
(b) Muttering.
(c) Flickering one eyebrow.
(d) Rolling his eyes.

3. Who would be left on the ship to take a watch while the landing party descends to the shore of Samana Bay?
(a) Carberry.
(b) Abbot.
(c) Hobbs.
(d) Wellard.

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

5. Who is the ship surgeon?
(a) Pierce.
(b) Coleman.
(c) Whiting.
(d) Clive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what could hot shot be heated?

3. The women prisoners on board the ship are kept on the _______________.

4. The Spanish officer with a white flag who approaches the English-taken fort is __________________.

5. How is the Captain's physical appearance described?

(see the answer key)

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