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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 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.

2. What does Hornblower think of the Napoleonic War?
(a) He thinks it is over before the end of the year.
(b) He is sick of it and wishes it is over.
(c) He wishes the Americans join in.
(d) It is too bad that the Russians don't trounce Napoleon and his army.

3. Who promises the mutineers immunity and a pension for every man from the age of sixty?
(a) The citizens of Le Havre.
(b) Marie Therese, Empress, Queen and Regent.
(c) The Admiralty.
(d) Hornblower.

4. Just before he meets the Flame's crew, what is Hornblower's plan? What is he going to do with the Flame's crew?
(a) Hornblower plans to have Lieutenant Chadwick arrested to appease the crew.
(b) Hornblower plans to order the Porta Coeli to fire and sink the ship.
(c) Hornblower plans to send Lieutenant Freeman aboard to reason with them.
(d) Hornblower has no concrete plans.

5. How does Hornblower remember Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?
(a) Chadwick is a bully and a tyrant.
(b) Chadwick is a bit of a buffoon, but generally harmless.
(c) Chadwick is a poor sailor, always seasick.
(d) Chadwick is a genius and has a way with numbers and calculations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lieutenant Freeman determine the ship's location in the dark?

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

3. Why is Hornblower's assignment regarding the Flame particularly difficult?

4. Who meets Hornblower and identifies himself as Captain of the Flame?

5. When does Hornblower learn long splicing?

(see the answer key)

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