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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Last Encounter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is McCool hanged?
(a) In the morning.
(b) When the fleet returns to England.
(c) An hour after McCool gives Hornblower the letter.
(d) McCool jumps overboard and escapes hanging.

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

3. About what does Hornblower wonder concerning the court martial?
(a) How long it will take to be informed of the court martial's outcome through official channels.
(b) If Bush will sit for court martial.
(c) If Meadows' career is ruined.
(d) If he will be assigned back to the Hotspur after it is reclaimed.

4. What does Meadows hope?
(a) That the French ship will be accosted by the English fleet.
(b) That he will get the French vessel as prize money.
(c) That success will help his future.
(d) That the French ship will lose interest.

5. How do Hornblower's men send him off?
(a) A few hurried handshakes.
(b) They don't even notice he is leaving.
(c) With a gift of a sword.
(d) With a rousing cheer and song.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the well-dressed lunatic claiming to be?

2. What do they offer Hornblower to accept the assignment?

3. What is spotted a few days later?

4. Why does Baddlestone turn the papers over to Hornblower?

5. Of whom is Hornblower considerate?

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