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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 and 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What enables Princess to regain her position within the fleet?
(a) The current shifts.
(b) Shifting winds.
(c) The privateer is captured.
(d) The waves drop to less than a foot.

2. What is passing by as Hornblower comes up on the deck of the Princess?
(a) A pod of whales.
(b) A French privateer.
(c) A large English fleet.
(d) An American privateer.

3. Who will be assisting Calder?
(a) The Channel fleet.
(b) The fleet under the command of Cornwallis.
(c) No one.
(d) The 3rd Navy's fleet.

4. Where does the French fleet arrive?
(a) Gibraltar.
(b) The English Channel.
(c) Cape Horn.
(d) The West Indies.

5. What does Hornblower say about conditions in Hotspur's assigned area?
(a) There are difficult local conditions.
(b) Sometimes the conditions can be difficult but usually not.
(c) It is generally calm and very little impedments.
(d) It is deep water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baddlestone ask of Hornblower immediately upon Hornblower's arrival on the Princess?

2. How does Meadows seem to Hornblower?

3. Who is commanding the French fleet that recently escapes from the Mediterranean?

4. Why does the Princess ride high in the water?

5. Who interrupts Meadows reading his orders?

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