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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Hornblower often gazing?

3. What do the three men come to realize?

4. What disguise do the three men don?

5. About what does Hornblower continue to worry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as the weeks pass with Bush and how does Brown help him?

2. What is Hornblower's status at the end of Chapter 17 and how does he view his possible future?

3. What was a major development with Hornblower's wife and how might that have changed his affair with Marie?

4. What does Brown do that demonstrates his change in attitude towards Hornblower and how does Hornblower feel about it?

5. How are the French responding to the missing men and what finally happens that gives them some hope?

6. What characteristics of the three men enhance their disguises?

7. How might their escape from the French be viewed and what additional bonus did they bring with their escape?

8. What would you say is the purpose of Chapters 11 and 12?

9. What are Chapters 16 and 17 used for in this story?

10. What does Hornblower reflect upon about his wife?

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