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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the fleet commander assure Hornblower?
(a) That Brown will be assigned to a vesself of his choice.
(b) That the commander's decree is routine procedure.
(c) That he will do all he can to ensure that Bush retains his field promotion.
(d) That he will do all he can to keep Bush in the navy.

2. What does Bush have great difficulty doing?
(a) Speaking French.
(b) Accepting Hornblower's friendship.
(c) Staying in France for so long.
(d) Walking on his leg with the missing foot.

3. What happens to the searches?
(a) They are intensified now thinking the men will relax their guard.
(b) They are discontinued.
(c) They continue at sporadic times.
(d) They are still occuring almost daily.

4. What does Hornblower do the next morning after rescue?
(a) Visits the men whom he liberated and offers them service in the English navy.
(b) Asks for permission to sail to England.
(c) Delivers a more detailed accounting of their adventures.
(d) Sets the men he captured afloat in a small boat.

5. About what does Hornblower continue to worry?
(a) His escape plans.
(b) His position in the Navy.
(c) His wife.
(d) Why they are no longer searching for them.

6. What intrigues Hornblower as he observes the activities of the harbor?
(a) The fact that there are a dozen or more American vessels.
(b) That there are ten captured English vessels in the harbor.
(c) The local blockade effort.
(d) That the French have only one frigate in the harbor.

7. What delights Hornblower?
(a) That the Count likes to play whist.
(b) That Brown has become involved with a woman.
(c) That Bush is not interested in Marie.
(d) That Marie seems to find him attractive.

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

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

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

11. What happens as weeks pass?
(a) Hornblower receives a letter from his wife.
(b) Bush is still very weak and bedridden.
(c) Brown learns to speak fluent French.
(d) Bush fully recovers.

12. What does Brown make for Bush?
(a) A set of crutches.
(b) A new sword.
(c) A wheelchair.
(d) Various peg legs.

13. 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) Because his Dutch rank on the uniform he is wearing is quite high.
(d) He is wearing a high-ranking French general's uniform.

14. What are Gien, Sully, Château-Neuf-sur-Loire, Jargeau, Orleans, and Beaugency?
(a) Towns through which the men pass.
(b) The capitols of each French province through which they pass.
(c) Towns which have been totally destroyed by the war.
(d) Names of some of the best French generals.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the fleet commander receive Hornblower?

3. What does Hornblower notice about Brown as they are leaving?

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

5. What do the men carefully observe?

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