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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At dinner, which officer keeps his mouth shut?
(a) Carberry.
(b) Hornblower.
(c) Roberts.
(d) Buckland.

2. Half the ________ trade comes up through the Bay.
(a) West Indies.
(b) French.
(c) Carribbean.
(d) World.

3. At the time of this story, _____ is in supreme control of France.
(a) French Parliament.
(b) Revolutionaries.
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte.
(d) King George II.

4. Horatio proposes that the landing party be made of ______________.
(a) 80 men.
(b) 108 men.
(c) 208 men.
(d) 180 men.

5. What does Hornblower do while at the Long Rooms?
(a) He plays poker.
(b) None of the answers are correct.
(c) He plays piquet.
(d) He plays whist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of one of the lieutenants' deaths, Bush becomes elevated to the rank of ______________.

2. Wellard is a ____________.

3. How long is the bronze gun that the men are lifting?

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

5. What role does Whiting have?

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