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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. What kind of ship does Hornblower command at the beginning of this book?

2. What necessitated the multi-tiered system?

3. Who leads the group of men to the semaphore?

4. What was Hornblower's title when he first met Pellew?

5. What does Hornblower hear from Maria?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Grimes so afraid of Hornblower?

4. What does Hornblower do during the ship-to-shore action?

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

6. What is Hornblower's plan to destroy the semaphore?

7. What do the Loire and Hotspur do when they pass each other for the first time?

8. What does Hornblower try to teach Grimes, and how is this lesson taken?

9. What does Cornwallis say about the treaty, and what does he plan to do in response to this?

10. Why does Hornblower lead the assault on the semaphore himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Hornblower change in his ideas about domestic life throughout this book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

What is the semaphore and what significance does it have in this plot?

Essay Topic 3

Fear is a common emotion in this book that is depicted a number of times by a number of characters. What are some of these instances, and how does fear affect the characters in the book?

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