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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower debate about doing?
(a) Giving McCool the means of suicide.
(b) Drugging McCool so he does not have to be nervous at his hanging.
(c) Letting McCool escape.
(d) How to keep McCool from making a speech at his hanging.

2. What is Hornblower's position on board?
(a) The signal lieutenant.
(b) The commissary lieutenant.
(c) The navigation lieutenant.
(d) The boswain's lieutenant.

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

4. What is Hornblower doing as the Princess gains port?
(a) Finishing dressing in his dress uniform.
(b) Writing his report about the French brig.
(c) Writing Maria.
(d) Drinking in despair.

5. What does Hornblower find in a secret compartment in the chest?
(a) Just some old papers.
(b) Lots of cash.
(c) A map of the English admiralty building.
(d) A secret document.

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

7. 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.

8. Of what are the newspapers critical?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Nelson.
(c) Calder.
(d) Meadows.

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

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

11. What do the English sailors do?
(a) Drop into the longboat and kill the crew.
(b) Change clothes with the French sailors.
(c) Sink the long boat.
(d) Quietly stike the Princess' sails.

12. What does Hornblower order the men to do to the French brig?
(a) Destroy it as much as possible.
(b) Sink it.
(c) Set it afire.
(d) Nothing.

13. What is the name of the French brig prize?
(a) Epérance.
(b) Papillion.
(c) Josephine.
(d) La Fortres.

14. What do they need to implement Hornblower's suggestion?
(a) Permission from the King.
(b) A forger.
(c) Permission from the Prince of Wales.
(d) Permission from the Admiralty.

15. When is McCool hanged?
(a) McCool jumps overboard and escapes hanging.
(b) When the fleet returns to England.
(c) In the morning.
(d) An hour after McCool gives Hornblower the letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Englishmen do upon arriving at the French brig?

2. What is the sentence passed upon McCool?

3. What does Hornblower realize from the poem?

4. Who lectures Hornblower?

5. What does Hornblower suggest could be used from the document?

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