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

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

3. What does the fleet commander announce concerning Bush?
(a) He will recommend the Navy retaining him.
(b) He will send him to England to be treated by the commander's person physician.
(c) He is promoted to commander of the vessel Hornblower and he captured.
(d) He will retire him with full honors and a stipend.

4. What effect does the lack of sleep have on Hornblower?
(a) He almost orders the vessel to head in the wrong direction.
(b) He almost loses control of the men.
(c) He sees confused images in a dreamlike state.
(d) He gets seasick.

5. After passing through Blois, Chaumont, Amboise, Tour, and Langeais, what does Brown announce?
(a) Nothing.
(b) He married while in France.
(c) He can smell the sea.
(d) He is staying in France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disguise do the three men don?

2. What must the men discard?

3. Who weeps when Brown says goodbye?

4. What does Hornblower learn in a letter from Barbara?

5. How do the men propel the boat?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How do you think the plan to steal the Witch of Endor could be viewed and why was it an excellent one? Who helped Hornblower and the others with taking her?

9. Why does Hornblower discard his disguise so quickly?

10. What does the Count suggest will be good disguises for the men and how does he help them with the disguise?

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