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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14, 15, and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as the Porta Coeli sights the Flame?
(a) The Flame raises sails to meet them.
(b) Another ship appears.
(c) Hornblower gives orders to fire.
(d) The Flame sends a boat over to negotiate.

2. Why is Hornblower talking to Lebrun in chapter eight?
(a) Hornblower personally interviews every prisoner.
(b) Lieutenant Freeman suggests it.
(c) Lebrun is the prisoner's delegate.
(d) Lebrun insists on the meeting.

3. What does Lebrun tell Hornblower about the latest imperial dispatches from Paris?
(a) The war is over.
(b) Taxes is repealed.
(c) Conscription is mandated for all.
(d) Napoleon wins a crucial battle in Leipzig.

4. What does Hornblower tell the crew of the Porta Coeli, just before meeting up with the Flame?
(a) They are picking up spies that the Flame captures.
(b) They are on their way to Spain to rescue stranded British soldiers.
(c) He is relieving Lieutenant Freeman of his command.
(d) That the crew of the Flame mutinies.

5. How does the Porta Coeli crew react to Hornblower's news about the mutiny on the Flame?
(a) They seem to support Hornblower.
(b) They are horrified and start complaining.
(c) They go on strike.
(d) They start to plan their own mutiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Porta Coeli crew feel about Hornblower?

2. What famous personage is Hornblower's wife related to?

3. Where do they hold the Congress to decide the fate of post-war Europe?

4. Who is the Duke d'Angoulême's wife?

5. Who promises the mutineers immunity and a pension for every man from the age of sixty?

(see the answer key)

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