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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4, and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long would the overland passage have been that Hornblower just traveled by boat in less than a day?
(a) 100 miles.
(b) 250 miles.
(c) 50 miles.
(d) 180 miles.

3. Where does the Hornblower family board the vessel?
(a) Cotswold.
(b) Essex.
(c) Gloucester.
(d) Oxford.

4. What is parallel to the canal?
(a) A paved road.
(b) A bridge.
(c) A line of trees right along the bank.
(d) A footpath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the vessel upon which the Hornblower family rides propelled?

2. How is the boat guided?

3. Whose funeral procession is Hornblower charged with planning?

4. What cannot be found?

5. What does the man at the tiller give up on doing?

(see the answer key)

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