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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must Hornblower survive on when his personal stores are gone?
(a) Ale and cheese.
(b) The ship's stores.
(c) Bread and tack.
(d) What he catches.

2. Who has made the ship ready to sail?
(a) McGill.
(b) Doughty.
(c) Bush.
(d) Hornblower.

3. Who is replacing Pellew as Hornblower's commander?
(a) Pinker.
(b) Pratner.
(c) Parker.
(d) Prancer.

4. What upsets Bush when the account of the mortar incident is in the newspaper?
(a) Bush is not mentioned at all.
(b) The Grasshopper's captain gets more exposure than Hornblower.
(c) Hornblower's snuffing of the fuse is not mentioned.
(d) Hornblower is made to look like a fool.

5. Where does Hornblower go to get fresh water for his ship?
(a) Ushdale Bay.
(b) Tor Bay.
(c) Uchtine Harbor.
(d) Port Tallin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hornblower doing at the beginning of the book?

2. Who tells Hornblower about the capture of the Spanish fleet?

3. How does Hornblower feel about the man who was too fearful to go with Cotard?

4. What does Maria not like to talk to Hornblower about?

5. Where does the semaphore operator live?

(see the answer key)

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