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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of ship is the Flame?
(a) Eighteen-gun brig.
(b) East Indian merchant ship.
(c) A French gunboat.
(d) Twenty-four gun brig.

2. What does Nathaniel Sweet show Hornblower that surprises him?
(a) New orders from the Admiralty.
(b) Letters and promises from the French.
(c) The crews' injuries from the constant flogging.
(d) Chadwick's signed confession.

3. What is the name of the French gunboat that Hornblower boards in the fight at Le Havre?
(a) Bonne Chance.
(b) Indefatigable.
(c) Bonne Celestine.
(d) Chasse-Marée

4. How does Lieutenant Freeman determine the ship's location in the dark?
(a) He calculates their position using the stars.
(b) He sends a seaman out in a tethered longboat.
(c) He asks Hornblower.
(d) He dredges up a soil sample from the bottom of the sea.

5. What types of weapons does Hornblower carry into combat?
(a) Two pistols.
(b) Two pistols and a sword.
(c) Just a sword.
(d) A dagger in his boot and a sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a chasse-marée?

2. What news does Hornblower receive from one of the prisoners from the French East Indian ship?

3. How does Hornblower know Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?

4. How is it possible that Hornblower's plan with the the Porta Coeli masquerade to work?

5. Why does Lord St. Vincent leave the church service?

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