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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Freeman offer to do for the other captains?
(a) Play whist for low stakes.
(b) Tell their fortunes with a pack of cards.
(c) Teach them some card tricks.
(d) Teach them how to play a Gypsy card game.

2. What is a chasse-marée?
(a) A French gunboat.
(b) A nickname for a French officer equivalent to a lieutenant.
(c) A French cannon on a ship.
(d) A French cannon mounted on the battery.

3. 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 has no concrete plans.
(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 plans to have Lieutenant Chadwick arrested to appease the crew.

4. What does Nathaniel Sweet show Hornblower that surprises him?
(a) New orders from the Admiralty.
(b) The crews' injuries from the constant flogging.
(c) Letters and promises from the French.
(d) Chadwick's signed confession.

5. Who meets Hornblower and identifies himself as Captain of the Flame?
(a) Lieutenant Chadwick.
(b) No one meets Hornblower.
(c) Nathaniel Sweet.
(d) A midshipman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of weapons does Hornblower carry into combat?

2. Who is Horatio Hornblower married to?

3. What happens after Hornblower captures the French gunboat in the battle at Le Havre?

4. On the Porta Coeli traveling to meet the Flame, why is Hornblower unhappy with the storm?

5. Brown has plans of his own in France. What does he tell Hornblower?

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