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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flatters Hornblower most about being at the dinner with Wychwood?

2. What do the men at dinner with Wychwood talk about?

3. How does Hornblower enter the dock at his destination after leaving the ball?

4. How many of Hornblower's men are wounded in the blocked dock?

5. What does Hornblower do with the filled barges that he connects to the bomb ketches?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What news does Hornblower hear from England after his plan with the bomb ketches works?

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

5. How did Hornblower's plan at the blocked dock work?

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

7. What do the bomb ketches do to help the defenses at Riga when they are made useful?

8. Where does Hornblower decide to take his flotilla after his surprise visitor leaves?

9. Where does General Essen take Hornblower when he gets to shore, and how does Hornblower enjoy it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Forester have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

The characters in this book all have their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.

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