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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meal like aboard Ramsbottom's vessel?
(a) Average but good tasting.
(b) Excellent and complicated.
(c) Complicated and barely edible.
(d) Typical seagoing fare.

2. What does the crew of the Clorinda receive?
(a) A large bounty.
(b) Citations.
(c) Time in dry dock.
(d) Promotions.

3. Who does Hornblower believes shares a mutual attraction?
(a) Spendlove and Miss Hower.
(b) Lucy Hough, about seventeen-years-old, and Spendlove.
(c) Miss Hough and Mr. Sharpe.
(d) Lucy Hough and Captain Fell.

4. How is Ramsbottom's vessel armed?
(a) Three twenty-four-pounder carronades.
(b) Just two six-pounder cannons.
(c) The vessel is not armed, but there are light arms issued to the crew.
(d) Two six-pounder cannons and ten twenty-four-pounder carronades.

5. Where are Hornblower, Hooper and several others invited to dine?
(a) At Ramsbottom's rented mansion in Jamaica.
(b) Aboard Ramsbottom's yacht.
(c) At the Gentleman's club to which Ramsbottom belongs.
(d) At an invitations-only dining restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men of the Clorinda construct a large, truncated cone?

2. What does Hornblower connive to do?

3. Where does the waterfall end?

4. Where does Ramsbottom say he is going to sail?

5. What does Hornblower's ship come about as he is cruising the coast?

(see the answer key)

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