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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does he notice laboring at the docks?
(a) Captured English sailors.
(b) Chain gains of slaves.
(c) Captured English citizens.
(d) Many Americans.

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

3. How does the riverbed change?
(a) From heavy rock to gravel to sand.
(b) From sand to large rocks and boulders.
(c) From dark silt to light sand.
(d) From sand to gravel.

4. Why does the third boat turn back?
(a) Because the fort is opening fire.
(b) Because Hornblower sinks two of them.
(c) They get too tired.
(d) Because they have no means of propelling themselves forward.

5. What do the newspapers announce finally?
(a) That only Hornblower is being offered amnesty.
(b) That the war is over.
(c) That Brown and Bush only are offered amnesty.
(d) That Hornblower and his companions drown in an escape attempt.

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

7. What do the three men come to realize?
(a) They are close friends.
(b) They will probably escape.
(c) They have been gone from England for almost a year.
(d) They all found Marie attractive.

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

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

10. Why do the men have to man the sweeps?
(a) To keep the men disciplined.
(b) They need to manuever around the sandbars.
(c) They are being pursued.
(d) The wind has died.

11. How does Hornblower gather a crew?
(a) He impresses them by authority of his rank.
(b) He offers triple pay.
(c) He doesn't need any more men than the three of them.
(d) He frees a group of men on a chain gang.

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

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

14. How does the fleet commander receive Hornblower?
(a) With coolness.
(b) With surprise.
(c) With indignation.
(d) He is unable to meet with Hornblower for a few days.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the searches?

3. What does Hornblower do the next morning after rescue?

4. Who will the men pose as?

5. Why would Hornblower be shot immediately if caught?

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