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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Meadows seem to Hornblower?
(a) Highly competent but unsure.
(b) Timid.
(c) Competent but cocky.
(d) Incompetent.

2. What has Hornblower been promised?
(a) An administrative post for a while since his wife is pregnant.
(b) A promotion to post captain.
(c) A bonus for a ship he recently helped capture.
(d) A command in Admiral Nelson's fleet.

3. Into what has Hornblower made the crew of the Hotspur?
(a) A group of bullies.
(b) An efficient mechanism.
(c) Men resentful of authority.
(d) A somewhat lazy crew.

4. What does Bush signal to the captain of the Princess as Meadows is reading orders?
(a) To start pumping the water into the bilges.
(b) To stay quiet.
(c) To lift the gangplank.
(d) To hand up the water hoses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hornblower ask permission to talk to Bush?

2. How do Hornblower's men send him off?

3. Why does Hornblower doubt the promise made to him?

4. Who pursues the French fleet?

5. What is positive about the cabin?

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