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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname of the commander of the fleet?
(a) Jimmy the Pirate.
(b) Jimmy the Hand.
(c) Dismal Jimmy.
(d) Sad Face.

2. What does Hornblower learn in a letter from Barbara?
(a) That Marie died quickly and peacefully.
(b) That she is nursing her husband back to health.
(c) That she left her husband.
(d) That she adopted his son.

3. What happens every few days?
(a) Brown is sent out to spy.
(b) Hornblower and Brown spar to stay in shape.
(c) Hornblower goes in disguise to listen to the local news at the tavern.
(d) Local law enforcement makes various wide-area sweeps.

4. How is Admiral Leighton's victory made possible?
(a) There was help from the locals.
(b) The French crews were on shore.
(c) The French had pulled most of their fleet away to another port.
(d) Because of Hornblower's efforts a few days earlier.

5. What is frightening that the men encounter?
(a) Ice floes.
(b) Large whales.
(c) French patrol boats.
(d) Rapids.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are they taken there?

2. What have the men reached?

3. Where does Brown stay when Bush is sent off to bed?

4. How does Brown feel at dinner?

5. What do they do with Caillard?

(see the answer key)

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