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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must they find another boat?

2. With whom do the men become acquainted?

3. What arrives over the next few days?

4. What's the biggest problem of escaping once a vessel is secured?

5. Who weeps when Brown says goodbye?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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