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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men find awkward?
(a) The size of the boat.
(b) The need to pretend to be peasants.
(c) To attend to their daily abulations.
(d) To resume a life of naval discipline together.

2. What delights Hornblower?
(a) That the Count likes to play whist.
(b) That Bush is not interested in Marie.
(c) That Marie seems to find him attractive.
(d) That Brown has become involved with a woman.

3. What does Brown make for Bush?
(a) A new sword.
(b) Various peg legs.
(c) A set of crutches.
(d) A wheelchair.

4. What does Hornblower hope about Barbara?
(a) That she will wait longer to find another man if her husband dies.
(b) That she is well.
(c) That she mourns his death.
(d) That she is a widow.

5. What does Hornblower notice about Brown as they are leaving?
(a) His French is quite good.
(b) He has a wedding ring on his finger.
(c) Nothing in particular.
(d) He seems to have had a romantic relationship with at least two women.

6. What do the men carefully observe?
(a) The way the foliage along the banks change.
(b) The directions the fish swim.
(c) The angle of the sun.
(d) The river's flow.

7. Who does he notice laboring at the docks?
(a) Chain gains of slaves.
(b) Captured English citizens.
(c) Many Americans.
(d) Captured English sailors.

8. What happens to the searches?
(a) They are still occuring almost daily.
(b) They continue at sporadic times.
(c) They are intensified now thinking the men will relax their guard.
(d) They are discontinued.

9. Where is Hornblower often gazing?
(a) At Marie.
(b) At the distant town of Nevers and the River.
(c) At Felix's daughter.
(d) At Bertrand's daughter.

10. For how long has Hornblower been without sleep?
(a) Almost a week
(b) 72 hours.
(c) 40 hours.
(d) 24 hours.

11. About what does Hornblower feel ashamed?
(a) His relationship with the Count's daughter-in-law.
(b) His impatience with Bush's handicap.
(c) His fear of dying.
(d) His envy of Brown's popularity.

12. With whom do the men become acquainted?
(a) Two English spies who are based in the village.
(b) Felix and his family.
(c) Marie's family.
(d) No one since they are hiding.

13. Of what does the fleet commander inform Hornblower?
(a) That Hornblower is to receive the Navy Service Medal.
(b) That Hornblowr faces forced retirement.
(c) That Hornblower is under official arrest pending court martial.
(d) That Hornblower will assume command of the HMS Java.

14. Why do the men have to man the sweeps?
(a) They are being pursued.
(b) They need to manuever around the sandbars.
(c) The wind has died.
(d) To keep the men disciplined.

15. What do the newspapers that Bush shows Hornblower extol?
(a) Hornblower's virtues and amazement at his exploits.
(b) The victory of Nelson's fleet at Trafalgar.
(c) The end of the war with Napoleon.
(d) The new steam engines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What's the biggest problem of escaping once a vessel is secured?

2. Why must the men exhibit extreme caution now?

3. What does the fleet commander announce concerning Bush?

4. What worries Hornblower about their eventual arrival home?

5. What do the men put in their boat?

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