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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Hornblower to proceed?
(a) Port Jackson.
(b) Antigua.
(c) Malta.
(d) Yurba.

2. What did Hornblower do as personal penance when he left England?
(a) He lodges an official complaint.
(b) He does not say goodbye to Maria.
(c) He spends some of his own money on supplies.
(d) He spends an extra day with Maria.

3. What does the Prince want to do?
(a) Gain a commission in the Cavalry.
(b) He does not express what he wants.
(c) Watch how a ship is readied for battle.
(d) Serve in the Royal Navy.

4. What does Hornblower do at the end of the day of loading Atropos?
(a) Goes to retrieve the Prince from his quarters.
(b) Goes home to say goodbye to Maria and his family.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Goes to a tavern with several officers.

5. What month and year is it that the Atropos sails to Gibraltar?
(a) July, 1806.
(b) August, 1804.
(c) June, 1810.
(d) September, 1808.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lord Cuthbert Collingwood?

2. What floats by the Atropos?

3. Why is Atropos unprepared for immediate departure?

4. What is parallel to the canal?

5. With what does the Prince arrive on the Atropos?

(see the answer key)

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