2. What does Baddlestone do to the French sailors who are pouring out from below deck?
(a) Shoots them with a nine pounder.
(b) Shoots the lead men with his pistol to slow the others down.
(c) Gives them a cheerful wave.
(d) Throws oil on the deck to make them slip up.

3. What do they need to implement Hornblower's suggestion?
(a) Permission from the King.
(b) A forger.
(c) Permission from the Prince of Wales.
(d) Permission from the Admiralty.

4. How does Maria act when Hornblower arrives?
(a) Cold.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Tearful.
(d) Hostile.

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

6. What does Hornblower do when he first makes shore?
(a) Goes to a tavern.
(b) Writes his wife and says goodbye to the men.
(c) Goes to see Meadows' mother.
(d) Goes to see Meadows' widow.

7. What do the English do after the fighting?
(a) Batten down the hatches to seal off the watch below.
(b) Plunder.
(c) Prepare for another fight as they let the sleeping watch come topside.
(d) Set fire to the ship.

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

9. What follows after Hornblower is shown leaving the admiralty?
(a) A look at how the orders are forged.
(b) How he gets to see Villeneuve.
(c) An author's note.
(d) Hornblower saying goodbye to Maria.

10. What skill does Hornblower mention that he possesses?
(a) Speaking German.
(b) Speaking French.
(c) Speaking Spanish.
(d) Spying.

11. What surprises Marsden when Hornblower looks at the document?
(a) That Hornblower is that interested in the papers.
(b) Hornblower is able to read French.
(c) Hornblower knows the Duke's seal.
(d) Nothing would surprise Marsden about Hornblower.

12. What does Hornblower realize from the poem?
(a) It was written by Cooleridge.
(b) It is instruction on how to manipulate the letters on top of the seachest.
(c) It was written by Longfellow.
(d) It was written by Yeats.

13. What bothers Hornblower about the letter from McCool?
(a) The pictures.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The platitudes.
(d) The poem.

14. Who is O'Shaughnessy?
(a) An Irish spy for the British navy.
(b) An alias for McCool.
(c) An alias for Yeats.
(d) No one of note.

15. How old is Hornblower at the opening of this short story?
(a) About 18.
(b) About 31.
(c) About 23.
(d) About 29.