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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Hornblower been promised?
(a) A command in Admiral Nelson's fleet.
(b) A promotion to post captain.
(c) An administrative post for a while since his wife is pregnant.
(d) A bonus for a ship he recently helped capture.

2. To what is Hornblower summoned?
(a) A debriefing.
(b) The annual planning council.
(c) Dinner with the Admiral.
(d) A court martial.

3. Who huddles below deck?
(a) All the officers on the Princess.
(b) The extra men on the Princess.
(c) No one.
(d) Captain Meadows.

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

5. Where does the French fleet arrive?
(a) Cape Horn.
(b) The West Indies.
(c) Gibraltar.
(d) The English Channel.

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

7. Now where is the French fleet headed?
(a) South America.
(b) Ferrol.
(c) The Mediterranean.
(d) No one knows.

8. Why does the Princess finally head for England?
(a) Admiral Calder orders them to do so.
(b) Baddlestone gets tired of waiting for the fleet.
(c) Baddlestone is tired of his passengers.
(d) She gets a fair wind.

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

10. For what does Meadows say he'd give up his prize money for five years?
(a) Orders to the West Indies.
(b) Orders off the Hotspur.
(c) A chance to spend more than a few days with his new wife.
(d) A chance to have Baddlestone as a sailor under his command.

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

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

13. Why is Princess going against her course?
(a) Bad weather.
(b) So she doesn't bounce so badly.
(c) To avoid a French privateer.
(d) To avoid an American privateer.

14. What frightens Hornblower about getting on the Princess?
(a) The way the Princess' Captain is glaring at Hornblower.
(b) Because he does not know his next assignment.
(c) The way the Princess seems to be out of trim.
(d) The 18' gangplank with no handrail.

15. Where are the officers of the Hotspur going?
(a) They are being distributed among Calder's fleet.
(b) To England to seek reappointment.
(c) Most have been dismissed from service.
(d) Back to Brest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baddlestone agree to Hornblower's plan?

2. What do the naval officers do as they become restless?

3. When does Baddlestone receive the news of the court martial verdict?

4. What kind of ship is it that they see?

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

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