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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is vital to keeping Bonaparte from crossing the English Channel?
(a) Good cannons along the shore.
(b) Concerted movements of the English fleet.
(c) Reliable spies keeping track of the French fleet's movements.
(d) The French would never dare cross the channel.

2. Who interrupts Meadows reading his orders?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Cornwallis.
(c) Baddlestone.
(d) Bush.

3. Who is Prowse?
(a) Baddlestone's source of information.
(b) The judge at the court martial.
(c) The sailing master on the Hotspur.
(d) The cook on board the Hotspur.

4. What do the English do with the two long boats?
(a) Keep them moored to the Princess.
(b) They are sunk.
(c) Take them to the French brig.
(d) Board them an head for land.

5. What command is Hornblower leaving?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Shannon.
(c) Leopard.
(d) Hotspur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Meadows charge?

2. How does Bush react to Hornblower's teasing?

3. To what is Hornblower summoned?

4. Who is the Captain of the hoy transferring Hornblower?

5. What horrifies Hornblower about what Baddlestone says?

(see the answer key)

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