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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10, 11, and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the horse driver doing?
(a) Singing in a loud voice.
(b) Cruelly whipping the horses.
(c) Drinking gin continually.
(d) Dozing on top of one of the horses.

2. How is Hornblower when he meets St. Vincent?
(a) Apprehensive.
(b) Exuberant.
(c) Sick.
(d) Melancholy.

3. Where do the Hornblowers leave the canal boat?
(a) Piccadilly.
(b) Hartford.
(c) Brentford.
(d) Bennington.

4. What does Hornblower have his crew do?
(a) Scrub the Atropos from stem to stern.
(b) Help him write out hundreds of orders for individuals.
(c) Mend the sails for getting underway.
(d) Repaint the Atropos to reflect a change of command.

5. What does Hornblower call the supplies McCullum takes on board?
(a) Expensive.
(b) Strange.
(c) He has no opinion.
(d) Worthless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower have Horrocks do?

2. What is a wherry?

3. What does Hornblower declare about the men on the London brig?

4. What is parallel to the canal?

5. About what does Maria fret?

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