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

2. What is the most important thing about the letter?
(a) The locations mentioned.
(b) The seal and signature.
(c) There is nothing important about it.
(d) The dates mentioned.

3. What happens when Hornblower is ushered into the waiting room for the admiralty?
(a) He practises his speech.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He paces nervously.
(d) He goes through the papers from Foster.

4. What bothers Hornblower a little about his participation in the plan?
(a) That he'll be acting alone and be disavowed if caught.
(b) Not being home when Maria gives birth to his second child.
(c) That he won't be able to tell Maria where he is.
(d) Being a spy.

5. What does Baddlestone do to the French sailors who are pouring out from below deck?
(a) Shoots the lead men with his pistol to slow the others down.
(b) Throws oil on the deck to make them slip up.
(c) Shoots them with a nine pounder.
(d) Gives them a cheerful wave.

6. How long does the court martial last?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 3 days.

7. What seems almost surreal to Hornblower?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The big city.
(c) Seeing his wife with his infant son so soon after hacking apart Frenchmen.
(d) The way the land sways under his feet.

8. Who is Reverend Doctor Claudius?
(a) Napoleon's personal physician.
(b) A forger.
(c) A minister.
(d) A doctor of considerable renown.

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

10. Who is Lord Barham?
(a) The first sea-lord.
(b) The Prince of Wale's right hand man.
(c) The Warden of the Northern Province.
(d) The Warden of the Southern Marshes.

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

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

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

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

15. What is the sentence passed upon McCool?
(a) Ten years at hard labor.
(b) Death by hanging.
(c) Life imprisonment.
(d) Death by firing squad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Barrow?

2. To whom does Hornblower report on land?

3. What does Hornblower mention about Ferrol?

4. What does Hornblower tell the men on the longboat to do?

5. What do the English do after the fighting?

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