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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. What does Hornblower ponder as he is riding in the Princess?
(a) Whether the captain would give him any of his personal liquor to help his stomach.
(b) How the Princess could be more stable.
(c) His personal future.
(d) How to ask the captain to come about and drop him off at the closest port.

2. What does Meadows call Baddlestone?
(a) His cross.
(b) An extremely competent sailor.
(c) A incompetent windbag.
(d) A likeable enough fellow.

3. How does Hotspur get off being aground?
(a) Pulled off by another vessel in the Channel fleet.
(b) By the action of the rising tide.
(c) Pulled off the sandbar by a French privateer.
(d) Pulled off the sandbar by a merchant vessel.

4. What is positive about the cabin?
(a) It is private.
(b) It has a breeze wafting through it.
(c) It is large.
(d) It is exceedingly comfortable.

5. Why can't Baddlestone or his men be pressed?
(a) They are under naval contract.
(b) They have paid the right people.
(c) They have already served their time.
(d) They are not English citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Meadows seem to Hornblower?

2. What horrifies Hornblower about what Baddlestone says?

3. Into what has Hornblower made the crew of the Hotspur?

4. Who is Calder?

5. What does Hornblower examine aboard the Princess?

(see the answer key)

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