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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it better to be a Captain than a Lieutenant?
(a) You get your choice of ships and postings.
(b) You get to name your ship when you get one.
(c) You get three times the pay and prize money as a Captain.
(d) You get to retire whenever you want.

2. What other honor is Hornblower awarded?
(a) Knight of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath.
(b) A baronetcy and a small property in Yorkshire.
(c) A purse and a personal letter of thanks from the Prince.
(d) The keys to the city of Bath.

3. What type of ship is a French West Indiaman?
(a) A blockage runner.
(b) A ship of the line.
(c) A French gunboat.
(d) A privateer.

4. Why is Hornblower's assignment regarding the Flame particularly difficult?
(a) The ship is difficult to find as only the general location is known.
(b) Spanish privateers are closing in.
(c) There are a lot of privateers operating nearby.
(d) The ship needs to be captured by subterfuge or negotiation and not force.

5. At the beginning of the book, Horatio Hornblower is not aboard a ship, why?
(a) He is still recuperating from his bout of typhus.
(b) He is waiting for his ship to be repaired.
(c) He is recalled to answer charges of insurbordination.
(d) He is attending a funeral of a friend at Westminster Abbey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hornblower ordered to do with the ship His Majesty's Flame?

2. What happens as the Porta Coeli sights the Flame?

3. Who is the Sovereign of the Order?

4. What does Hornblower's wife make for him?

5. Just before he meets the Flame's crew, what is Hornblower's plan? What is he going to do with the Flame's crew?

(see the answer key)

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