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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Hornblower know Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?
(a) Lieutenant Chadwick's wife is Hornblower's first cousin.
(b) They are schoolmates.
(c) Their families have neighboring estates.
(d) They serve as midshipmen together on the same ship.

3. Who is the captain of Porta Coeli?
(a) Lieutenant Chadwick.
(b) Captain Bush.
(c) Lieutenant Freeman.
(d) Lord St. Vincent.

4. At the beginning of the book, Horatio Hornblower is not aboard a ship, why?
(a) He is still recuperating from his bout of typhus.
(b) He is attending a funeral of a friend at Westminster Abbey.
(c) He is waiting for his ship to be repaired.
(d) He is recalled to answer charges of insurbordination.

5. Just before he meets the Flame's crew, what is Hornblower's plan? What is he going to do with the Flame's crew?
(a) Hornblower plans to send Lieutenant Freeman aboard to reason with them.
(b) Hornblower has no concrete plans.
(c) Hornblower plans to order the Porta Coeli to fire and sink the ship.
(d) Hornblower plans to have Lieutenant Chadwick arrested to appease the crew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it better to be a Captain than a Lieutenant?

2. Who gives Hornblower his next assignment in the beginning of the book?

3. What type of ship is the Flame?

4. On the Porta Coeli traveling to meet the Flame, why is Hornblower unhappy with the storm?

5. What does Lord St. Vincent tell Hornblower?

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