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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower and his crew spend the first summer at war doing?
(a) Destroying all progress on the semaphore.
(b) Working the blockade.
(c) Sending information.
(d) Scouting the shore units.

2. What do the fall gales prevent from happening?
(a) Clear sights.
(b) Re-provisioning.
(c) Effective blockading.
(d) Practice runs with the guns.

3. How many gales come up in the same fall month?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

4. What does Hornblower reminisce about during the storms?
(a) His experiences with Pellew.
(b) His wife.
(c) His first days on a ship.
(d) His time off during peace.

5. Where is Hornblower told to go while he is talking to Doughty in the brig?
(a) Caribbean.
(b) Colot.
(c) Cadiz.
(d) Creon.

6. What does Hornblower do on Christmas?
(a) Takes the watch himself.
(b) Writes to Maria.
(c) None of these.
(d) Allows rum rations for his men.

7. Why is Hornblower not able to speak with Maria?
(a) Cornwallis orders him back to sea.
(b) Another gale blows up.
(c) The French attack.
(d) Hornblower is promoted.

8. How does Hornblower appear on New Year's Eve?
(a) Tired and worried.
(b) Distracted and upset.
(c) Haggard and strange.
(d) Thin and sickly.

9. What month does the Hotspur run low on water?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) November.
(d) October.

10. What does Hornblower get when he interviews with Cornwallis after all the storms?
(a) New clothes.
(b) Some wine.
(c) A fine dinner.
(d) Personal stores.

11. What does Hornblower make his crew train in during the Winter?
(a) Navigation.
(b) Sailing techniques.
(c) All of these.
(d) Gunnery.

12. How is the second French ship harmed when Hornblower makes his night attack?
(a) It is rammed by the third ship.
(b) It runs aground.
(c) It catches on fire.
(d) All of these.

13. What is the punishment for Doughty's arrest?
(a) Imprisonment.
(b) Death.
(c) Demotion.
(d) Banishment.

14. How was the frigate run aground destroyed?
(a) It was shot to pieces by cannons.
(b) It blew apart in the wind.
(c) It was burned.
(d) It sunk.

15. What kind of ship is the Grasshopper?
(a) A man of war.
(b) A sloop.
(c) A frigate.
(d) A lugger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cornwallis appear after hearing about the water emergency on the Hotspur?

2. What does Hornblower have to do after sleeping a few hours after destroying the semaphore?

3. For what are the changes in winter favorable?

4. What increases around the destroyed semaphore?

5. Why can Hornblower not get new water when he first gets into the bay?

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