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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower offer as a plan?
(a) To sink the ship and put the men in the life boats.
(b) To strike French colors.
(c) To hide the number of men aboard.
(d) To abruptly turn windward as the ship approaches.

2. What is spotted a few days later?
(a) A huge pod of dolphins which is considered good luck.
(b) A sail.
(c) The French fleet.
(d) An albatross which is considered bad luck.

3. Where does Hornblower invite Meadows to receive the ship's papers?
(a) Aft away from the water transfer activity.
(b) On the poop deck.
(c) On the bridge.
(d) In the captain's quarters.

4. What do Hornblower and Bush both desire to avoid while saying their goodbyes?
(a) Bringing up some past unpleasantness.
(b) Acknowledging why Hornblower is leaving.
(c) Sentiment.
(d) Letting the crew thing the two men are friends.

5. What happens to Meadows?
(a) Thirty lashes.
(b) Stripped of rank and commission.
(c) Three years at hard labor.
(d) A reprimand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the water-hoy built?

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

3. Who is Prowse?

4. Why can't the empty barrels in the hold be filled with salt water?

5. What horrifies Hornblower about what Baddlestone says?

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