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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Captain fell, he landed on his ___________.
(a) Head.
(b) Backside.
(c) It is not known immediately.
(d) Feet.

2. Who does Horatio request to be the messenger while off-ship?
(a) Carberry.
(b) Wellard.
(c) Abbott.
(d) Whiting.

3. The Spanish officer with a white flag who approaches the English-taken fort is __________________.
(a) Colonel Orega.
(b) The Spanish Captain-General.
(c) Unknown.
(d) Villaneuva.

4. After three days at sea, Bush knows he feels what?
(a) Dissatisfied and worried.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Confused.
(d) Out of place.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bush feel when the Captain accuses him of something untrue?

2. How many years experience does Buckland have as an officer in the Royal Navy?

3. The morning after his fall, why is the Captain restrained?

4. How many prisoners does Hornblower take at the main gate on the other side of the fort from Bush?

5. How is the ship's original course altered once the new orders are given?

(see the answer key)

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