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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) French peasants.
(b) That of Dutch customs officials.
(c) Dutch merchants.
(d) Spanish peasants.

2. How does Hornblower get assistance from the local pilot?
(a) He threatens him.
(b) He offers him a high position in the English navy.
(c) He offers him a large bribe.
(d) He does not need a pilot.

3. How do the men propel the boat?
(a) They paddle.
(b) They have a sail.
(c) They drift with the current.
(d) They row.

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

5. What do the men carefully observe?
(a) The angle of the sun.
(b) The directions the fish swim.
(c) The river's flow.
(d) The way the foliage along the banks change.

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

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

8. What does Hornblower learn in a letter from Barbara?
(a) That Marie died quickly and peacefully.
(b) That she is nursing her husband back to health.
(c) That she left her husband.
(d) That she adopted his son.

9. Who builds a boat?
(a) Bertrand and his sons.
(b) Hornblower and Brown.
(c) Felix and his son-in-law.
(d) Bush and Brown.

10. How is Hornblower able to bluster his way onto the cutter he decides to steal?
(a) He pretends to have a missive from Napoleon.
(b) He pretends he is a new recruit.
(c) He is wearing a high-ranking French general's uniform.
(d) Because his Dutch rank on the uniform he is wearing is quite high.

11. What must the men discard?
(a) Their boat.
(b) Their weapons.
(c) Their supplies.
(d) Their disguise as fishermen.

12. Why are two of the boats delayed at bit?
(a) Picking up men from the first boat which Hornblower sinks.
(b) They acidentally ram each other.
(c) They lose their oars.
(d) They are arguing about pursuit.

13. Of what does the fleet commander inform Hornblower?
(a) That Hornblowr faces forced retirement.
(b) That Hornblower is under official arrest pending court martial.
(c) That Hornblower is to receive the Navy Service Medal.
(d) That Hornblower will assume command of the HMS Java.

14. For how long has Hornblower been without sleep?
(a) Almost a week
(b) 24 hours.
(c) 40 hours.
(d) 72 hours.

15. Why must the men exhibit extreme caution now?
(a) There is a battle going on nearby.
(b) They are free of France and do not need to be cautious any more.
(c) Napoleon's agents routinely patrol this area.
(d) There are posters of them hung on the town's boards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fleet commander's response to Hornblower's account?

2. How much money does Hornblower receive from the sale of the vessel he captures?

3. Who will the men pose as?

4. Why does Bush fret about the loss of his foot?

5. What does Hornblower observe in the towns through which they pass?

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