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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. When asked how the Captain fell down the hatchway, Hornblower replies _______________.
(a) "I think he tripped on the ladder."
(b) I do not know, sir."
(c) "I think he must have overbalanced."
(d) "Someone must have pushed him."

4. The number of shipmen in the crews that secure the lower deck guns totaled _____________.
(a) 80.
(b) 118.
(c) 180.
(d) 108.

5. Buckland's _______ is apparent to the ship's crew.
(a) Insensibility.
(b) Incoherence.
(c) Indecision.
(d) Intent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the language of the sea, "handsomely" means ________________.

2. Buckland, as acting Captain, seems to be quite ______________.

3. The gun that Bush and Hornblower choose to use in their plan weighs _____.

4. In regards to Hornblower's illness, Bush says _______________.

5. Who says of Wellard, "He knows nothing, sir. He doesn't know the bobstay from the spanker-boom."?

(see the answer key)

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