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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hornblower's Temptation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is positive about the cabin?
(a) It has a breeze wafting through it.
(b) It is large.
(c) It is exceedingly comfortable.
(d) It is private.

2. Why does Baddlestone turn the papers over to Hornblower?
(a) Baddlestone does not know how to go about getting them to the right people.
(b) Baddlestone does not want to deal with them.
(c) Baddlestone suggests that Hornblower will gain prestige by presenting them.
(d) Baddlestone is afraid of getting pressed into service.

3. What seems almost surreal to Hornblower?
(a) The way the land sways under his feet.
(b) Seeing his wife with his infant son so soon after hacking apart Frenchmen.
(c) The big city.
(d) Nothing.

4. Who is better informed than Hornblower?
(a) No one.
(b) Bush.
(c) Baddlestone.
(d) Meadows.

5. What do the men confined below decks do?
(a) Set fire to the ship.
(b) Pound on the door.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Start shooting through the deck and disable the tiller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hornblower's opinion about Ireland?

2. What horrifies Hornblower about what Baddlestone says?

3. What does it seem Meadows has done?

4. What does Hornblower do when he first makes shore?

5. Who lectures Hornblower?

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