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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9, and the Author's Note.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of the encounter with Villeneuve?
(a) It is bungled and Villeneuve finds safe harbor.
(b) Villeneuve has been totally routed.
(c) The English and French suffer about the same amount of casualties.
(d) There is no word yet about the outcome.

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

3. Who is taking over command of the vessel Hornblower is leaving?
(a) Bush.
(b) Meadows.
(c) Cornwallis.
(d) Johnson.

4. What is Hornblower doing as the Princess gains port?
(a) Finishing dressing in his dress uniform.
(b) Writing his report about the French brig.
(c) Drinking in despair.
(d) Writing Maria.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Princess do?

2. What does Hornblower order the men to do to the French brig?

3. What has Hornblower been promised?

4. For what does Meadows say he'd give up his prize money for five years?

5. What does the secretary believe about the weighted packet?

(see the answer key)

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