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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19, 20, and 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the downside of the success at the Semaphore?
(a) Many Englishmen died.
(b) A last message got through.
(c) They could not destroy the code.
(d) The French caught them.

2. What does Hornblower regret after getting his first dinner from Grimes's replacement?
(a) His insistence that the new steward stay in Grimes's old cabin.
(b) His sadness about losing Pellew.
(c) His pre-occupation with business.
(d) His cold reception of the new steward.

3. Who mans the Hotspur during the attack on the semaphore?
(a) Pellew.
(b) Cornwallis.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Bush.

4. How far along is Maria in her pregnancy when Hornblower learns about it?
(a) Three months.
(b) Four months.
(c) One months.
(d) Two months.

5. What does Hornblower update over the first summer at war?
(a) The naval charts.
(b) The journey log.
(c) The history books.
(d) The crew list.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower make his crew train in during the Winter?

2. What upsets Bush when the account of the mortar incident is in the newspaper?

3. What does Hornblower teach Grimes to do?

4. Where is Hornblower told to go while he is talking to Doughty in the brig?

5. Hoe many cannons are on the Hotspur?

(see the answer key)

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