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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 observe in the towns through which they pass?
(a) The evidence of war.
(b) The women.
(c) The architecture.
(d) The number of soldiers.

2. What have the men reached?
(a) The tidewater.
(b) The lake into which the river flows.
(c) England.
(d) Amsterdam.

3. What does the kitchen make?
(a) Dried fruits and jerky.
(b) Fifty pounds of ship's biscuits.
(c) Fancy breads and pastries.
(d) Cordon Bleu.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of the commander of the fleet?

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

3. What does Brown make for Bush?

4. What do the men detect?

5. What do the men carefully observe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hornblower and Bush do with Marie and the Count to help pass the time? How does Bush do with it?

2. What does Hornblower realize about his status should he be caught and how does he view himself in his present situation?

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

4. How might Hornblower's reaction to the events with Marie be viewed in terms of characterization?

5. What is the writing style like in Chapters 11 and 12?

6. What happens to Bush upon their return to England and what does Hornblower still fret about?

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

8. What do Bush and Brown do to prepare for a spring escape and how does Hornblower feel about it?

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

10. What is a humorous aspect of the river trip having to do with being on fresh water?

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