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

2. What does it look like Meadows is doing as the Princess pulls away from Hotspur?
(a) Already disciplining some sloppy sailor.
(b) Gathering the crew for an inaugural speech.
(c) He's already in his cabin on the Hotspur.
(d) Making his way to the bridge.

3. What does Baddlestone ask of Hornblower immediately upon Hornblower's arrival on the Princess?
(a) If Hornblower needed to use the head.
(b) If Hornblower could climb the riggings.
(c) If Hornblower would like dinner.
(d) Hornblower's warrant.

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

5. What does Princess do?
(a) Turns and runs.
(b) Stikes French colors.
(c) Has the officers man the guns.
(d) Trims sail and gets ready for battle.

6. What puts a hole in the Hotspur?
(a) An iceberg.
(b) A rock.
(c) An explosion on board.
(d) Enemy cannon fire.

7. What is Hornblower's status aboard the Hotspur once Meadows' orders are read?
(a) Second in command.
(b) A non-entity.
(c) Only able to issue an order in an emergency.
(d) On the same command level as Meadows.

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

9. 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 18' gangplank with no handrail.
(d) The way the Princess seems to be out of trim.

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

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

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

13. What is positive about the cabin?
(a) It is exceedingly comfortable.
(b) It is private.
(c) It has a breeze wafting through it.
(d) It is large.

14. What is the Hotspur blockading?
(a) A Dutch merchant fleet.
(b) A French squadron.
(c) A French merchant fleet.
(d) A Dutch squadron.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bush react to Hornblower's teasing?

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

4. Why does the Princess finally head for England?

5. What won't Meadows ever have again?

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