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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fascinates Hornblower on the trip?
(a) The various types of terrain they pass.
(b) The way the scrawny mules are able to pull so much weight.
(c) The way the sails are manipulated.
(d) The way the boat is constructed.

2. What does the man at the tiller give up on doing?
(a) Trying to engage Hornblower in conversation.
(b) Telling his crew to row harder.
(c) Telling the captain about the weakened pinion rudder.
(d) Keeping the boat completely in line.

3. What does the King announce that confuses Hornblower?
(a) The flawless funeral procession.
(b) That Atropos is to be commanded by someone else.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A reference about Hornblower's command and His Serene Highness.

4. What does Hornblower find when he returns to his hotel room?
(a) His wife has returned to their home.
(b) His wife has had a baby girl.
(c) His wife is dead.
(d) His wife is alive but the baby is dead.

5. What happens to the horse driver?
(a) He passes out.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He runs off.
(d) He is trampled by a horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the vessel upon which the Hornblower family rides propelled?

2. Where are Hornblower and St. Vincent maneuvered?

3. What does Hornblower do at Oxford?

4. Even if Napoleon rules the earth at the moment, what consoles Hornblower?

5. Why is Atropos unprepared for immediate departure?

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