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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower do in the reading room?
(a) Reads the notice of his escape.
(b) Talks with Marie about her life there.
(c) Reviews several weeks' worth of newspapers.
(d) Falls asleep in the chair.

2. What is the year?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1810.

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

4. How is Bush in the morning?
(a) His stump is completely healed over.
(b) He is near death.
(c) Much better.
(d) Feverish.

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

6. Who does the Count introduce?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His daughter-in-law.

7. How many sons does the Count have?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

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

9. Why do Hornblower and Brown have to drag the boat free?
(a) It is caught in a small water whirlpool.
(b) It snags on an underwater log.
(c) It grounds in shallow water.
(d) It is caught in thick weeds.

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

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

12. How does Hornblower's interviewer act?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Stiff and unyielding.

13. Why does Hornblower choose Brown instead of his actual steward to make the journey to Paris with him?
(a) Because Brown speaks French.
(b) Because of Brown's powerful build and iron determination.
(c) Because his steward is too injured to travel.
(d) Because he wished to see his steward released in a prisoner exchange.

14. Why should Hornblower not worry about losing his ship?
(a) He has recovered many French ships for the British.
(b) He was ordered into battle under terrible odds.
(c) He is considered a hero and no one minds the loss of one ship.
(d) He has enough money to replace it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stands in the way of Hornblower marrying the love of his life?

2. Of what is Hornblower convicted?

3. What is the name of the ship Hornblower loses?

4. Why does the Colonel decide to go ahead with the transport of Bush and Hornblower despite Bush's injuries?

5. How old is Brown?

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