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

2. With what do the men arm themselves?
(a) Whatever they can find.
(b) Pistols, swords, bayonets and staffs.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Mostly pistols and one repeating rifle.

3. What is passing by as Hornblower comes up on the deck of the Princess?
(a) A French privateer.
(b) A pod of whales.
(c) An American privateer.
(d) A large English fleet.

4. What does it seem Meadows has done?
(a) Ignored protocal.
(b) Deliberately ignore repeated warnings by Bush.
(c) Nothing that any other captain wouldn't do.
(d) Made a navigational mistake.

5. How does Bush react to Hornblower's teasing?
(a) Angry.
(b) Apologetic.
(c) With his own teasing.
(d) With umbrage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the water-hoy built?

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

3. How does Meadows seem to Hornblower?

4. Who pursues the French fleet?

5. What does Baddlestone ask of Hornblower immediately upon Hornblower's arrival on the Princess?

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