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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after they ship fires a few more times?
(a) The pirates flee overland.
(b) The surviving pirates surrender.
(c) The pirates kill themselves.
(d) The pirates are all dead.

2. How does Johnson come across to Hornblower?
(a) As a wily fox.
(b) As formal and disapproving.
(c) As an illiterate and ignorant man, scarcely more than a savage idiot.
(d) As a very bright and articulate man.

3. Where does the waterfall end?
(a) A few feet down into a shallow stream.
(b) In a deep pool and river at the base of the cliff.
(c) It is impossible to tell from where Hornblower is sitting.
(d) In the ocean.

4. What is the name of Ramsbottom's yacht?
(a) Bride of Abydos.
(b) Bride of Frankenstein.
(c) Abydos Lost.
(d) Abydos Found.

5. Of what does the Governor remind Hornblower?
(a) The last time Hornblower was in San Juan.
(b) Of the fact that he met Hornblower's wife while she was still married to Admiral Leighton.
(c) The rules of engagement.
(d) Of the time the French broke the rules of engagement and what happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Helmund transporting?

2. What does Hornblower's ship come about as he is cruising the coast?

3. Where does Hornblower direct the Crab to sail?

4. What does Hornblower learn from his wife, Barbara, about Ramsbottom?

5. What does Hornblower intend to do?

(see the answer key)

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