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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 and the group try to do to evade capture after being cornered by Napoleon's troops?
(a) Hide themselves in an abandoned farmhouse.
(b) Swim downriver.
(c) Disguise themselves as French soldiers.
(d) Find a boat to cross the river.

2. How does the Hornblower's impasse with the Duke d'Angoulême resolve itself?
(a) The Mayor of Le Havre intervenes and works things out.
(b) Lebrun provides some additional information that saves the day.
(c) Hornblower relents, but remembers this day.
(d) The Duke's advisors intervenes and works things out.

3. Where does the attack force go to meet Napoleon's troops?
(a) Upriver from Le Havre, near a place called Caudebec.
(b) To the harbor.
(c) Downriver from Le Havre, near a place called Honfleur.
(d) To Harfleur, a small town outside of Le Havre.

4. How is Hornblower recognized for his services?
(a) He is given a medal.
(b) He is made a peer.
(c) He and Barbara are invited to a reception given by the Prince Regent in his honor.
(d) He is relieved of his duties in Le Havre and allowed to retire.

5. At the royal banquet, what does Hornblower realize about his wife?
(a) She enjoys being part of the political scene and the privileged crowd.
(b) She is in love with someone else.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She only marries him because her brother tells her to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is still with Hornblower when the French troops catch up with them?

2. What does Hornblower do at this point when he notes that their insurgency is at an end?

3. What is the date that Hornblower notes is the final day of the insurgent effort?

4. What is one of the many things Hornblower does in his new position in Le Havre?

5. How does Napoleon respond to the Comte and his followers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hornblower plan to do with the militia sent to bolster Le Havre's defenses? Why?

2. What does Hornblower note about the church service he accompanies the Duke d'Angoulême to? Why is this significant?

3. On the evening of Brown's marriage to his sweetheart, the Comte relays some bad news to Hornblower. What is the news and how does it affect Hornblower?

4. With Le Havre declaring for the French King, what does Hornblower's superiors in England do?

5. How are Hornblower and the Comte saved from execution?

6. What does Hornblower have the English troops do at the end of the Mayor Momas' ceremony, and why is this significant?

7. What does Hornblower come to realize about his wife and himself?

8. What are some of the reasons that Hornblower doesn't return immediately to England?

9. What is LeBrun able to do to make it easier for Hornblower to secure the harbor defenses at Le Havre?

10. How is Hornblower captured at the end of the book?

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