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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 does Hornblower do with the filled barges that he connects to the bomb ketches?
2. What is the name of the ship that gives Hornblower the first signal of a French ship?
3. What do the men at dinner with Wychwood talk about?
4. What does Hornblower do after the dinner with Wychwood?
5. What important prisoner does Hornblower capture as he heads to shore when he sees the smoke?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is the pale young man at the dinner, and why is he ignored?
2. What does Hornblower do to get his bomb ketches in on the action at Riga?
3. What does the message Hornblower receives the day after the ball say?
4. What does Braun try to do at the dinner and how is he stopped?
5. Who is marching against Russia after the destruction of the Blanchefleur, and how does Hornblower feel about this?
6. What terrible news is heard at the end of Chapter 21?
7. What does Hornblower worry about as he heads to Riga?
8. What does Wychwood bring back from his diplomatic mission?
9. What news does Hornblower hear from England after his plan with the bomb ketches works?
10. What happens as Hornblower is rowing to shore at Riga?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which character did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this character change throughout the book?
Essay Topic 2
Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?
Essay Topic 3
The Countess was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?
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