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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14, 15, and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hornblower feel about Sweet's death?
(a) Barbara wants him to kill the man.
(b) Nothing, he has seen too many die.
(c) He has to die.
(d) He wishes it is Chadwick instead.

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

3. What do the crew of the Flame say in the letter they send to the Admiralty?
(a) They are tired of the blockade and want to go home.
(b) They want shore leave.
(c) They are flogged and starved on Lieutenant Chadwick's orders.
(d) Lieutenant Chadwick is selling secrets to the French.

4. What does Hornblower have to do with the mutineers who aren't pardoned?
(a) Help the Admiralty reallocate them to other ships.
(b) Hold the court martial trial at Le Havre.
(c) Sign the court martial papers to hang them.
(d) Sign the court martial papers and sentence them to hard labor.

5. What is the first indication that things are not going well for the attack force sent to fight Napoleon's troops?
(a) A deserter is caught and says the attackers are wiped out.
(b) Hornblower is woken up in the middle of the night and told of a huge explosion.
(c) A French citizen gives Hornblower an eye-witness account of a massacre.
(d) Captain Bush comes back with what's left of the attack force.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Hornblower does when he returns from the Flame to the Porta Coeli?

2. Who does Hornblower have on board the Porta Coeli?

3. At the royal banquet, what does Hornblower realize about his wife?

4. Who does Hornblower meet while walking on deck with Lieutenant Freeman?

5. What does Napoleon do (April 1814) not long after Hornblower secures Rouen?

(see the answer key)

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