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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a drogue?
(a) A ship that has only one mast.
(b) A captain gone astray.
(c) A sea anchor.
(d) A sailor engaged in nefarious trade.

2. Why is Fell always poor?
(a) He has ten children to raise.
(b) He maintains an extravagant wife in England.
(c) He has a gambling problem.
(d) He was the third son of a Baron and thus inheirits little.

3. What bay does Hornblower look out over where he is sitting on a rocky ledge?
(a) Metriola.
(b) Hispaneola.
(c) Jamaicana.
(d) Montego.

4. What does Hooper order?
(a) A military strike on the pirate's redoubt.
(b) Increased patrols along the coastal areas.
(c) A medal for Spendlove.
(d) Breakfast for Spendlove.

5. How does Hornblower confound the foreign embassies and get them off his ship?
(a) By telling them he will not hesitate to fire upon their vessels.
(b) He is unwilling to speak to the officials when the boat over to the Clorinda.
(c) Using his command of rhetoric and dialogue.
(d) By giving them many contradictory statements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the waterfall end?

2. To what is the cone affixed?

3. Who is Charles Ramsbottom?

4. Where does Hornblower write a brief letter?

5. What does Hornblower spend his time doing during the next two weeks after the dinner with Ramsbottom?

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