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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14, 15, and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Hornblower not happy and is awkward with his wife when she visits him at Le Havre?
(a) He is on active duty and is not comfortable having his wife around.
(b) She is embarrassing him by singing his praises to everyone.
(c) He thinks she is having an affair.
(d) She keeps trying to get him to retire and go back to England.

2. Who teaches Hornblower the technique of long splicing?
(a) His servant, Brown.
(b) Captain Sawyer.
(c) Lieutanent Chadwick.
(d) Harding.

3. What does Napoleon do (April 1814) not long after Hornblower secures Rouen?
(a) Makes a last stand in Paris.
(b) Surrenders.
(c) Commits suicide.
(d) Abdicates.

4. Who gives Hornblower his next assignment in the beginning of the book?
(a) Prince of Wales.
(b) No one, he already has an assignment.
(c) Duke of Wellington.
(d) Lord St. Vincent.

5. What happens after Hornblower captures the French gunboat in the battle at Le Havre?
(a) He stays on the French gunboat and waits to see what happens.
(b) He trips over a loose board and drops his sword.
(c) He leads his men over to the Flame.
(d) He goes back to the Porta Coeli.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does some of the Flame mutineers say to Hornblower after the battle at Le Havre?

2. Where does Hornblower send the Porta Coeli as part of his plan for the militia?

3. How does Hornblower get onto the Flame?

4. Where is the Flame when Hornblower sets out to meet her?

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

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