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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disguise do the three men don?
(a) Spanish peasants.
(b) Dutch merchants.
(c) French peasants.
(d) That of Dutch customs officials.

2. What do the men find awkward?
(a) The size of the boat.
(b) To resume a life of naval discipline together.
(c) To attend to their daily abulations.
(d) The need to pretend to be peasants.

3. What does the fleet commander announce concerning Bush?
(a) He will send him to England to be treated by the commander's person physician.
(b) He will recommend the Navy retaining him.
(c) He is promoted to commander of the vessel Hornblower and he captured.
(d) He will retire him with full honors and a stipend.

4. What happens to the vessel Hornblower stole?
(a) It is converted to a merchant vessel.
(b) It is purchased into service.
(c) It is sold for private use.
(d) It is converted to a transport vessel.

5. What does Hornblower do as they are in the boat?
(a) Learns wood carving from Brown.
(b) Teaches Bush more seamanship skills.
(c) Muses about his future.
(d) Composes poetry to Marie.

6. Who gives chase to Hornblower's vessel?
(a) No one.
(b) An American frigate.
(c) A French frigate.
(d) Three boats full of heavily-armed men.

7. Why do the men have to stay inside?
(a) The weather is so bad most of the time.
(b) They are not used to the bitter French winters.
(c) They go outside when it becomes Spring.
(d) So their presence goes entirely undetected.

8. What do the men detect?
(a) A slight tidal swell.
(b) A strange odor.
(c) The sound of gun fire.
(d) The sound of trumpets.

9. What uniform does Hornblower, Brown, and Bush don once on board the cutter?
(a) None.
(b) English.
(c) American.
(d) French.

10. Where is the vessel Hornblower captured going?
(a) To England with dispatches.
(b) To drydock in Holland.
(c) No where; it will join this fleet.
(d) Back to help blockade the port from which it is stolen.

11. Who will the men pose as?
(a) Dutch soldiers.
(b) French soldiers.
(c) Italian nobles.
(d) English captives.

12. What do the newspapers that Bush shows Hornblower extol?
(a) Hornblower's virtues and amazement at his exploits.
(b) The end of the war with Napoleon.
(c) The new steam engines.
(d) The victory of Nelson's fleet at Trafalgar.

13. Why would Hornblower be shot immediately if caught?
(a) So he could not ridicule the French government for making an inaccurate announcement.
(b) He would be considered a spy.
(c) So he couldn't escape again.
(d) The French government would not admit to making a mistake.

14. Who weeps when Brown says goodbye?
(a) A farm girl in the next village.
(b) Bertrand's oldest daughter.
(c) Felix's daughter.
(d) All the serving women.

15. How much money does Hornblower receive from the sale of the vessel he captures?
(a) 55 pounds.
(b) 1000 pounds.
(c) 2600 pounds.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the fleet commander inform Hornblower?

2. What happens as weeks pass?

3. What intrigues Hornblower as he observes the activities of the harbor?

4. Why must they find another boat?

5. Where is Hornblower often gazing?

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