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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. Who tells Hornblower that a single ship is ready?
(a) Grimes.
(b) Bush.
(c) Cargill.
(d) Doughty.

2. Who has made the ship ready to sail?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Doughty.
(c) Bush.
(d) McGill.

3. Where does Hornblower plot a course after leaving England?
(a) Brest.
(b) Ushant.
(c) Ushille.
(d) Bree.

4. What causes the Hotspur to win the race with the Loire?
(a) The Loire falls into iron.
(b) The Loire turns to shore.
(c) The Hotspur gets a good wind.
(d) The Hotspur unloads some weight.

5. Who mans the Hotspur during the attack on the semaphore?
(a) Pellew.
(b) Bush.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Cornwallis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the English fleet feel about the semaphore?

2. Why do the French merchant ships stay close to the shore?

3. What is Pellew's first name?

4. What does Hornblower teach Grimes to do?

5. What does Bush do after the wedding celebration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hornblower called to do shortly after his wedding celebration begins?

2. What gift does Hornblower give Maria before he leaves, and what is this symbolic of?

3. What does Hornblower find when he goes to punish Grimes?

4. How does Bush feel when Hornblower knows all about the Loire in the Brest harbor?

5. How does Bush feel when a French merchant vessel sails by, and why?

6. How does Hornblower feel about prize money, and how does he communicate this?

7. How does Hornblower get the one thing he needs to complete his plan to destroy the semaphore?

8. Why is Hornblower unable to have fresh eggs, and why is this so frustrating to him?

9. Why does Hornblower not have much in his own personal stores on the ship?

10. How does Hornblower feel right before his wedding, and what does he do?

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