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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hornblower's special duty?
(a) He is not given a special duty.
(b) To signal the moment by moment account of the court martial.
(c) To guard McCool.
(d) To join the prize crew.

2. What does the secretary believe about the weighted packet?
(a) That it is not authentic.
(b) That it is authentic but of no special importance.
(c) That it is not a ruse de guerre.
(d) That it is of Dutch rather than French origin.

3. About whom are the signals concerned?
(a) The Captain of the Papillion.
(b) Barry I. McCool.
(c) The Captain of the Josephine.
(d) The Captain of the Epérance.

4. Who has signed the document?
(a) No one.
(b) The Duke of Muscovy.
(c) Josephine.
(d) Napoleon.

5. Who lectures Hornblower?
(a) Admiral Leighton.
(b) Admiral Nelson.
(c) Captain Sawyer.
(d) Admiral Cornwallis.

6. Who has intercepted Villeneuve?
(a) Nelson.
(b) Only the Channel fleet.
(c) Calder.
(d) No one.

7. How does Hornblower find McCool to be?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Calm, polite, and likable.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Combative.

8. Where is Hornblower going after he has visited his wife?
(a) To meet with his lawyer.
(b) To the admiralty.
(c) To see his father.
(d) To sleep.

9. Who does Meadows charge?
(a) The French captain.
(b) Three French marines.
(c) No one; he is not on the boarding crew.
(d) A large burley seaman.

10. What is the most important thing that Hornblower takes from the French brig?
(a) Being able to tell Meadow's wife of his heroism.
(b) Money.
(c) Documents.
(d) A sense of pride.

11. What do the French send to the Princess?
(a) An offer for a compromise.
(b) A prize crew.
(c) An ultimatum.
(d) The head of an English prisoner.

12. What bothers Hornblower about the letter from McCool?
(a) The poem.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The platitudes.
(d) The pictures.

13. What does Hornblower realize from the poem?
(a) It is instruction on how to manipulate the letters on top of the seachest.
(b) It was written by Yeats.
(c) It was written by Longfellow.
(d) It was written by Cooleridge.

14. What do the men confined below decks do?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Start shooting through the deck and disable the tiller.
(c) Pound on the door.
(d) Set fire to the ship.

15. What is Hornblower contemplating as he leaves the admiralty?
(a) That he will be receiving his own command.
(b) That he is going to be a spy.
(c) How to invest his bonus pay.
(d) That he may not return to England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the French brig prize?

2. What do they offer Hornblower to accept the assignment?

3. What is the most important thing about the letter?

4. Who is O'Shaughnessy?

5. What does Hornblower decide to do with the sea chest?

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