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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Hornblower and Ramsbottom spend several evenings doing?
(a) Playing bridge.
(b) Playing chess.
(c) Playing darts.
(d) Playing whist.

2. What does Barbara confess to Hornblower as they wait out the storm?
(a) That she would have divorced Hornblower if he had supported the hanging of Hudnutt.
(b) That she has a brief affair while Hornblower is in the West Indies.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That Hornblower is the only man she has ever loved.

3. What does Hornblower engage in that is typical for him?
(a) Small time gambling.
(b) Hypochondria.
(c) Excessive drinking.
(d) Self-critical introspection.

4. What does Johnson want of Hornblower?
(a) A letter to the governor requesting pardon for the survivinig pirates.
(b) Money.
(c) To tell Hornblower Lucy would like to meet him in the library.
(d) Release of Johnson's wife who is being held as a slave.

5. Why won't any of the men take the letter to the governor?
(a) They think Johnson will double cross them.
(b) Too hard a walk.
(c) Fear of imprisonment.
(d) They think Johnson will tell the governor about the meeting between Lucy and Hornblower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hornblower's new flagship?

2. What happens after Spendlove follows Hornblower's orders?

3. Who is Mr. Hough?

4. What does Cambronne bewail?

5. What do the pirates do?

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