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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 does Hornblower tell the men on the longboat to do?
(a) Wait for an answer.
(b) Board.
(c) Prepare to die.
(d) Nothing.

2. What does Hornblower decide to do with the sea chest?
(a) Give it to Captain. Sawyer.
(b) Toss it overboard.
(c) Send it on to the widow with the cash.
(d) Send it on to the widow without the cash.

3. What do they offer Hornblower to accept the assignment?
(a) Immediate promotion to post-Captain.
(b) Command of his own vessel.
(c) Ten percent of any prize money from the subsequent sea battle.
(d) A large monetary bonus.

4. What does Hornblower suggest could be used from the document?
(a) That they could use Josephine's signature to make Napoleon doubt her.
(b) That the seal and signature could be copied and false orders created.
(c) That they could use Napoleon's signature to create a false treaty that would then be circulated.
(d) That they could set up an ambush at the location mentioned.

5. What does the secretary believe about the weighted packet?
(a) That it is authentic but of no special importance.
(b) That it is not a ruse de guerre.
(c) That it is of Dutch rather than French origin.
(d) That it is not authentic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower realize from the poem?

2. To what ship is Hornblower assigned?

3. What is the sentence passed upon McCool?

4. Who is Reverend Doctor Claudius?

5. What is the end result of Hornblower delivering the false orders to Villeneuve?

Short Essay Questions

1. What indications are there that the weighted packet Hornblower takes off the French brig might be important?

2. What does Baddlestone suggest and what does Hornblower ultimately have the men do to the French brig?

3. What do the formerly sleeping watch sailors do as Hornblower is contemplating what to do with the ship?

4. What do Hornblower and his men do when the prize crew arrives?

5. How do the Englishmen get over to the French brig?

6. Describe the outcome of the court martial and the events up to when McCool is hanged.

7. What man is aboard the Epérance in whom the English seem interested?

8. What are the setting and circumstances at the opening of this short story?

9. What is most useful about the document that Hornblower brings to the admiralty?

10. How does Marsden describe the encounter between Calder and Villeneuve?

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