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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 do the crew of the Flame say in the letter they send to the Admiralty?
(a) Lieutenant Chadwick is selling secrets to the French.
(b) They are tired of the blockade and want to go home.
(c) They want shore leave.
(d) They are flogged and starved on Lieutenant Chadwick's orders.

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

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

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

5. Where is the Flame when Hornblower sets out to meet her?
(a) About a mile off the coast of Dover.
(b) Close to the French port city of Le Havre.
(c) At the docks in Liverpool.
(d) On its way to Jamaica.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hornblower meet while walking on deck with Lieutenant Freeman?

2. When does Hornblower learn long splicing?

3. What does Nathaniel Sweet show Hornblower that surprises him?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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