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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The morning after the Captain's fall, the surgeon says that the Captain is _______________.
(a) Weak.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Not fit for duty.
(d) Insensible.

2. Finish this quote from the text: "And sea and surf and beach seemed to be _______."
(a) Afire.
(b) Awake.
(c) Aware.
(d) Ablaze.

3. Wellard is punished by being beaten with ______________.
(a) Captain Sawyer's leather strap.
(b) Mr. Booth's whip.
(c) Mr. Booth's silver-mounted cane.
(d) Captain Sawyer's silver-mounted cane.

4. Who says of Wellard, "He knows nothing, sir. He doesn't know the bobstay from the spanker-boom."?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Buckland.
(c) Mr. Booth.
(d) Bush.

5. How many times is Wellard beaten in total on this day?
(a) 30.
(b) 24.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

6. Which marine sprains his ankle during the climb?
(a) Whiting.
(b) Abbott.
(c) Saddler.
(d) Chapman.

7. What role does Whiting have?
(a) Surgeon.
(b) Midshipman.
(c) Captain of the Marines.
(d) Marine.

8. At the beginning of Chapter 6, how many days have passed since the change in command?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

9. Who is chosen to assist the landing party leader by assuming important duties in action?
(a) Smith.
(b) Wellard.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Bush.

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

11. The HMS Renown has ______ guns.
(a) 24.
(b) 72.
(c) 47.
(d) 74.

12. Since when have the British been at war?
(a) 1693.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1893.
(d) None of the answers are correct.

13. From whose perspective is the novel written?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Buckland.
(c) Bush.
(d) Wellard.

14. In what could hot shot be heated?
(a) Battery on land.
(b) Kiln on land.
(c) Kiln on a ship.
(d) Battery on a ship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bush halt for 15 minutes?

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

3. Who says, "You wear your guilt on your face, Mr. Bush. I'll remember this"?

4. What is the consequence for being caught speaking mutinously in secret?

5. At the end of Chapter 10, how many of the privateers' schooners are destroyed?

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