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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. What does Hornblower's wife make for him?
(a) A linen shirt.
(b) An embroidered handkerchief.
(c) A blue belted sash.
(d) A red silk scarf.

2. How doesl Hornblower get to the Flame?
(a) Sail incognito on a fishing boat.
(b) Pay for passage aboard an American ship to France and then make his way overland.
(c) Use his contacts and hire blockade runners willing to take him.
(d) Sail on the Flame's sister ship.

3. Who is Horatio Hornblower married to?
(a) Charlotte, a neighbor.
(b) Barbara, the Duke of Wellington's sister.
(c) Maria, his childhood sweetheart.
(d) Jane, a sister of one of Hornblower's shipmates.

4. What is Hornblower afraid of happening on the Flame?
(a) The crew hang Lieutenant Chadwick.
(b) The crew delibrately sink the ship.
(c) The crew set fire to the Flame.
(d) The crew surrenders to the French.

5. Where is Hornblower at the beginning of the book?
(a) Aboard His Majesty's Flame.
(b) At his home in Bath.
(c) Escorting his wife on a shopping expedition.
(d) At Westminster Abbey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hornblower know the captain of the Porta Coeli?

2. At the beginning of the book, Horatio Hornblower is not aboard a ship, why?

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

4. What does Lord St. Vincent tell Hornblower?

5. What type of ship is a French West Indiaman?

(see the answer key)

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