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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Duchess appoint the Comte de Graçay?
(a) Lieutenant-General of the King in the Nivernais.
(b) Mayor of Nevers.
(c) Military advisor to the Duke.
(d) General of the Royalist army.

2. When does Hornblower learn long splicing?
(a) Before he boards his first ship.
(b) Just recently while he is convalescing.
(c) As a midshipmen.
(d) He never learns.

3. How doesl Hornblower get to the Flame?
(a) Pay for passage aboard an American ship to France and then make his way overland.
(b) Use his contacts and hire blockade runners willing to take him.
(c) Sail on the Flame's sister ship.
(d) Sail incognito on a fishing boat.

4. How does Lieutenant Freeman determine the ship's location in the dark?
(a) He asks Hornblower.
(b) He sends a seaman out in a tethered longboat.
(c) He calculates their position using the stars.
(d) He dredges up a soil sample from the bottom of the sea.

5. Why does a militia arrive in Le Havre?
(a) They are on their way to the front.
(b) They are on leave.
(c) To bolster the defenses.
(d) They are retreating from the front.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ships does Admiral Pellew send as reinforcement?

2. What news arrives to make Hornblower's plan for the militia an almost guaranteed success?

3. What is one of the many things Hornblower does in his new position in Le Havre?

4. Although news is uncertain, which of the following is confirmed as fact while Hornblower is at the Chateau?

5. Why does an English ship have a Spanish name - Porta Coeli?

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