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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Count opposed to the current administration?
(a) It is unjust.
(b) It is arbitrary.
(c) It is immoral.
(d) All his sons are killed in the war.

2. What rank are Bush and Brown?
(a) A First Lieutenant and Coxswain.
(b) First mate and Steward.
(c) First and second mate.
(d) Both midshipmen.

3. What happens when Hornblower withdraws the final ligature from Bush's stump?
(a) Bush faints.
(b) Brown faints while watching.
(c) The wound immediately appears better.
(d) The wound bleeds and oozes pus.

4. Why is Bush at a critical stage of his recovery?
(a) His stump is still bleeding.
(b) He is psychologically hoping for death.
(c) The ligatures of arteries still extend beyond the wound and the stump has yet to heal over.
(d) He has not been wounded very long.

5. To whom is Marie married?
(a) Antoine.
(b) Charles.
(c) Marcel.
(d) Louis-Marie.

6. Who is Lady Barbara Leighton?
(a) His mother.
(b) The wife of his admiral and the love of his life.
(c) His wife's sister.
(d) His wife's mother.

7. What does Hornblower see that motivates him to form an escape plan?
(a) A rowboat.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Two English spies following the coach.
(d) An English ship off the coast.

8. What happens to Hornblower's ship?
(a) It is torched by the French.
(b) It is torched by the English.
(c) It is towed by the English out to sea.
(d) Nothing.

9. What is Brown doing for the first time in his life?
(a) Speaking on equal terms with Hornblower.
(b) Tending to Bush's wound.
(c) Traveling outside of England.
(d) Eating at a table with china and silverware.

10. What do the men encounter downriver?
(a) A waterfall.
(b) A patrol of ten French soldiers.
(c) A patrol of ten mercenaries.
(d) One of the English spies that is following them.

11. About what does Hornblower fret when in Rosas?
(a) The fate of his wife Maria.
(b) Whether the Dutch will join with Napoleon.
(c) If the Spanish will decide to float an Armada.
(d) Why he has not yet been rescued.

12. Why is Hornblower self-conscious?
(a) The deep wound and scarring from a sword cut in the last battle.
(b) His men's deference.
(c) The burn on his face.
(d) Preparing for bed in the presence of other men.

13. What can Hornblower see from his daily walks?
(a) England across the sound.
(b) The ruined and dismasted wreck of his ship.
(c) The execution of some spies.
(d) His men being put to work as laborers.

14. Where are Hornblower and the other two taken?
(a) To the parlour.
(b) To the library.
(c) To the kitchen.
(d) To the barn.

15. Where does the coach slide?
(a) Into Napoleon's carriage.
(b) Into a huge tree.
(c) Off the elevated roadway and almost into the river.
(d) Into a mud bog.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Admiral Leighton's victory made possible?

2. Why does the Count live in London?

3. Who attends to Bush's stump?

4. What is disgraceful about the French behavior after the English strike their colors?

5. What does the Spanish warden demand?

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