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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. About what is the oarsman deprecatory?
2. Who is Doctor Eisenbeiss?
3. Where do the Hornblowers leave the canal boat?
4. What fascinates Hornblower on the trip?
5. To whom does Hornblower whisper an explanation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens at Oxford to relieve Hornblower of his volunteer job and then what does Hornblower do?
2. What is the status of the Atropos when Hornblower questions Lieutenant Jones?
3. What do Hornblower and Maria do after leaving the wherry?
4. Why does Hornblower change the original plans for the docking and offloading of the coffin?
5. What happens when the Prince and his retinue come on board the Atropos?
6. Why does the boat stop and what is the captain's concern?
7. What is recovered from the sea and what does Hornblower figure out from the object?
8. How does Hornblower respond to Eisenbeiss's blusters?
9. What fascinates Hornblower about the boat on which he is riding?
10. Describe Hornblower's encounter with the King.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
McCullum and Eisenbeiss fight a duel in which McCullum is gravely injured. Discuss the following:
1. What is a duel? How is it conducted? Why is it conducted? When does the use of duels to settle matters of honor go out of use in England? The United States?
2. What other methods do you think could be used to settle a matter of honor or insult to one's reputation?
3. In England, dueling becomes illegal in the 19th century, yet men still engage in them and the winner often has to flee to escape punishment. Do you think dueling should have been made illegal? Why or why not?
4. Research dueling in Britain and discuss the typical reasons two men (and once a female couple) would engage in a duel. Do the reasons seem worth the potential costs?
5. If dueling were still legal, can you imagine engaging in one? Why or why not.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze one major theme of Hornblower and the Atropos. Consider the following: How does one character's actions portray the theme you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to that theme? Is the theme one that you would call a "universal theme?" If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme. If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?
2. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Hornblower and the Atropos. How does one character's actions portray the themes you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to that theme? Is the theme one that you would call a "universal theme?" If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme. If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?
3. What benefit is there in discussing and analyzing the themes of a work of fiction? Do you think most authors consciously develop themes in their works? Why or why not? Can there be accidental themes? What do you think is one possible "accidental" theme in Hornblower and the Atropos. Which theme in Hornblower and the Atropos speaks to you the most in your life? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Though the book Hornblower and the Atropos is presented as a cohesive whole, it is written almost as three stories, and hence has several different plots with individual characteristics of exposition, inciting force, conflict, rising action, crises, climax and denouement. Discuss one of the following:
1. Define the major elements of a plot structure and show how those elements exist in the section about Hornblower and Lord Nelson's funeral in chapters 3-4.
2. Define the major elements of a plot structure and show how those elements exist in the section about the recovery of the treasure from the Speedwell.
3. Define the major elements of a plot structure and show how those elements exist in the section about Hornblower and the Spanish ship Castilla
4. Show how these three stories are connected.
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