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

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

3. What arrives over the next few days?
(a) A cadre of lawyers to prepare Hornblower for his court martial.
(b) Much mail.
(c) Marie's relatives.
(d) A new crew for Hornblower's new command.

4. Why would Hornblower be shot immediately if caught?
(a) So he could not ridicule the French government for making an inaccurate announcement.
(b) The French government would not admit to making a mistake.
(c) So he couldn't escape again.
(d) He would be considered a spy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hornblower get assistance from the local pilot?

2. What worries Hornblower about their eventual arrival home?

3. Who builds a boat?

4. About what does Hornblower feel ashamed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. What is ideal about traveling on a river for escaped prisoners and how might that change?

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

10. What worries Hornblower as the days in the count's house go by? What kind of visions does he have of her and Barbara?

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