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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hotspur get off being aground?
(a) Pulled off by another vessel in the Channel fleet.
(b) By the action of the rising tide.
(c) Pulled off the sandbar by a French privateer.
(d) Pulled off the sandbar by a merchant vessel.

2. How does Meadows seem to Hornblower?
(a) Highly competent but unsure.
(b) Incompetent.
(c) Competent but cocky.
(d) Timid.

3. How long has Hornblower been involved in the blockade of Brest?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 2 months.

4. Who interrupts Meadows reading his orders?
(a) Bush.
(b) Baddlestone.
(c) Cornwallis.
(d) Hornblower.

5. On whom does Hornblower rely in managing the everyday activities of Hotspur?
(a) Masters.
(b) Percival.
(c) Bush.
(d) Meadows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is positive about the cabin?

2. What is vital to keeping Bonaparte from crossing the English Channel?

3. What horrifies Hornblower about what Baddlestone says?

4. Why is passage aboard the water hoy uncomfortable?

5. To what is Hornblower summoned?

(see the answer key)

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