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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are McCullum's chances of survival best?
(a) His wound is minor.
(b) Ashore.
(c) Either ashore or on the ship.
(d) On the ship.

2. Where does Eisenbeiss think the bullet is lodged?
(a) Next to the heart.
(b) In McCullum's shoulder blade.
(c) McCullum's scapula.
(d) In McCullum's right lung.

3. How much does Hornblower believe has been recovered?
(a) About 2,000,000 pounds.
(b) About 20,000 pounds.
(c) About 200,000 pounds.
(d) About 2,000 pounds.

4. To where does Atropos set sail?
(a) Puta Batang.
(b) Marmorice Bay.
(c) Batavia.
(d) Malta.

5. How is the dinner?
(a) Tense.
(b) A disaster.
(c) Enjoyable.
(d) Hornblower is bored.

6. In what kind of shape are the ships after the fighting?
(a) None of the ships is damaged much at all.
(b) All three are heavily damaged.
(c) The two English ships sustain light damage and the Castilla is listing even worse than before.
(d) The English ship that Atropos meets is slowly sinking and Atropos and Castilla have little damage.

7. What does Hornblower have done to the man who fell overboard while climbing the rigging without permission?
(a) Caned a few times.
(b) Handcuffed and tied to the mast.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Confined to the brig.

8. How does Hornblower light the fuse?
(a) By striking flint against the core.
(b) By dropping a live coal in the barrel.
(c) Through a hole in the barrel.
(d) Through a long pipe.

9. What does Hornblower notice about the nearby fortress one morning?
(a) They are reinforcing the walls.
(b) It is no longer deserted.
(c) It is under attack.
(d) It is burning.

10. What other information does Turner obtain?
(a) Very little.
(b) That the HMS Leopard just left.
(c) That a French man-o-war is shortly expected.
(d) That the English fleet under Lord Cuthbert just left.

11. Who is one person who places the explosives under the wreck?
(a) Looney.
(b) Hammer.
(c) Headley.
(d) McCullum.

12. Who fights a duel?
(a) McCullum and Eisenbeiss.
(b) McCullum and the Prince.
(c) McCullum and Lieutenant Jones.
(d) McCullum and Jones.

13. What is the gunner's name?
(a) Clout.
(b) Gold.
(c) Hammer.
(d) Machens.

14. Where is the last container of gold?
(a) Under the whole wreck.
(b) In the captain's cabin.
(c) It's been stolen.
(d) They do not know.

15. Who accidentally falls overboard?
(a) The Prince.
(b) Eisenbeiss.
(c) John Jones.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Atropos go with the treasure?

2. On what does Hornblower congratulate himself?

3. Of what does Hornblower try to convince the Turks?

4. What type of fuse does the crew construct on the next attempt at demolition?

5. What does the Mudir offer for the Atropos's continued presence?

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