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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man who gives Hornblower the first signal of a French ship?
(a) Crandall.
(b) Claim.
(c) Crane.
(d) Cole.

2. What title does Miss Canerine hold?
(a) Comtesse.
(b) Duchess.
(c) Lady.
(d) Countess.

3. What do the men at dinner with Wychwood talk about?
(a) Women.
(b) Politics.
(c) War.
(d) Money.

4. How many men does Hornblower have enter the blocked dock with him?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 250.
(d) 150.

5. Where does Hornblower's crew go to celebrate the victory over the Blanchefleur?
(a) The main deck.
(b) On shore.
(c) Hornblower's mess.
(d) The captain's cabin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hornblower meet on shore after he captures an important prisoner?

2. Where does Hornblower decide to go the day after the ball?

3. What does Hornblower call the filled barges that he connects to the bomb ketches?

4. What kind of fires are burning on the shore when Hornblower talks about the impossibility of war?

5. What percentage of his men does Hornblower have enter the blocked dock with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hornblower treat his surprise visitor the day after the ball, and how is this treatment received?

2. What does Cole do at Riga that is looked down on by Hornblower?

3. What terrible news is heard at the end of Chapter 21?

4. What does Hornblower do after the dinner, and what leads him to do this?

5. What do Hornblower and Wychwood talk about when they first meet?

6. Who is the pale young man at the dinner, and why is he ignored?

7. What does the message Hornblower receives the day after the ball say?

8. What does Hornblower see on the coast of Riga, and how does he know what they are?

9. What does Braun try to do at the dinner and how is he stopped?

10. How does Hornblower learn about the local feelings about the destruction of the Blanchefleur?

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