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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Captain orders _______ and _______ to report properly dressed when every watch is called.
(a) Bush and Wellard.
(b) Bush and Roberts.
(c) Bush and Hornblower.
(d) Bush and Buckland.

3. What word is difficult for Hornblower to use when speaking with superior officers?
(a) Mutiny.
(b) Yes.
(c) Sir.
(d) Thank-you.

4. To what does the 19th Article pertain?
(a) Consequences of starting fights onboard.
(b) Treatment of prisoners.
(c) The consequences of mutiny.
(d) The consequences of spying.

5. Who takes command of the landing party?
(a) Smith.
(b) Bush.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Buckland.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Bush spend three weeks between employments?

2. Wellard is punished by being beaten with ______________.

3. Which items are locked in the Captain's desk?

4. Which shipman takes an axe to the fort's wooden door?

5. Half the ________ trade comes up through the Bay.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author negatively characterize Buckland in Chapter 8?

2. Describe the breakfast that the shipmen have at the beginning of Chapter 5.

3. How does Lt. Bush categorize naval officers?

4. How is the Captain "pitiful" after his fall down the hatchway?

5. What factors lead to the H.M.S. Renown's defeat at Samaná Bay?

6. What does it mean that Bush is "brought up in a hard school"?

7. What are the four shipmen discussing on the darkened lower gun deck at the beginning of Chapter 4?

8. Why might Bush be both pleased and irritated with Hornblower?

9. How is Horatio Hornblower described physically at the beginning of Chapter 1?

10. Describe the injuries that the Captain suffers after his fall down the hatchway.

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