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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occupies Clorinda's days?
(a) Sailing from port to port to supervise the dry dock activities of the West Indies fleet..
(b) Demonstrating seamanship to other English vessels.
(c) Cruising in the West Indies in search of pirates or slave runners.
(d) Ferrying English settlers among the islands of the West Indies.

2. When Cambronne sets sail, what does he employ?
(a) A group of slaves.
(b) Both steam tugs.
(c) A company of mercenaries.
(d) An escort of two American frigates.

3. About how many vessels does Hornblower command?
(a) 17.
(b) 55.
(c) 68.
(d) 3.

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

5. What do ships-of-war gain from capturing slave ships?
(a) Choice assignments next time.
(b) Head money.
(c) A rotation back to England.
(d) A citation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ramsbottom appear physically?

2. How does Hornblower confound the foreign embassies and get them off his ship?

3. What do the circulars say that are dispatched to various authorities?

4. How does Hornblower see his future?

5. What is the Helmund transporting?

(see the answer key)

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