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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is remarkable about Hornblower and the battle?
(a) He could not see because of an eye injury yet still conducted the battle as commander.
(b) His ship is virtually uninjured.
(c) He escapes uninjured.
(d) He is able to kill or wound 10 of the French crew himself alone.

2. What is frightening that the men encounter?
(a) Rapids.
(b) French patrol boats.
(c) Large whales.
(d) Ice floes.

3. Where does Brown stay when Bush is sent off to bed?
(a) In the servants's quarters.
(b) In the hayloft.
(c) With the servants in the kitchen.
(d) In the parlour.

4. What does the Innkeeper do after the men are loaded into the coach?
(a) Asks for double the fee since Bush's illness kept other customers away.
(b) Tells Caillard he will pray for his hardened soul.
(c) Slips Hornblower a note to tell him rescue is on the way.
(d) Serves them ersatz coffee and breakfast.

5. How many French vessels does Hornblower destroy or incapacitate?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

6. What does Hornblower see that motivates him to form an escape plan?
(a) An English ship off the coast.
(b) A rowboat.
(c) Two English spies following the coach.
(d) Nothing.

7. What does Hornblower observe about Marie's build?
(a) She has a very fetching figure.
(b) She is stout.
(c) She is slender like a young woman.
(d) She is quite heavy.

8. What offer by the Count does Hornblower decline?
(a) The use of two loaded pistols.
(b) To speak to Napoleon on Hornblower's behalf.
(c) To stay there permenantly.
(d) Smuggling him back to England immediately.

9. How is Bush injured?
(a) He loses a foot and three fingers.
(b) He is unscathed.
(c) He loses one eye and his arm.
(d) He loses a foot.

10. Who is commanding the English fleet that is attacking in the harbor?
(a) Captain Stone.
(b) Admiral Nelson.
(c) Admiral Leighton.
(d) Captain Aubrey.

11. What is the atmosphere in France because of Napoleon's reign?
(a) Fear.
(b) Joyousness.
(c) Confused.
(d) Depressed.

12. In what way does Hornblower answer the Count?
(a) The Count does not question Hornblower that evening.
(b) Evasively.
(c) Defensively.
(d) Honestly.

13. How does Brown feel at dinner?
(a) Confused.
(b) Relaxed.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Self-conscious.

14. About how far is it to Paris from Rosas?
(a) 100.
(b) 575.
(c) 1020.
(d) 80.

15. What does the Spanish warden demand?
(a) That Hornblower and Bush not be transported until after Christmas.
(b) That Hornblower be allowed an appeal trial in Rosas.
(c) That Hornblower be executed in Rosas.
(d) That Hornblower, as a gentleman, be allowed a personal attendant on the voyage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years has Brown been in the English navy?

2. What does Hornblower do in the reading room?

3. Who comes to the Count's residence?

4. What happens to his men daily?

5. Why do they go to a house they see in the distance?

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