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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they offer Hornblower to accept the assignment?
(a) Immediate promotion to post-Captain.
(b) Command of his own vessel.
(c) A large monetary bonus.
(d) Ten percent of any prize money from the subsequent sea battle.

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

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

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

5. To whom does Hornblower report on land?
(a) Rear Admiral Foster.
(b) Admiral Leighton.
(c) Admiral Nelson.
(d) Admiral Stonewall.

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

7. How is Hornblower feeling as he arrives home?
(a) Content.
(b) Happy.
(c) Exhausted.
(d) Exhilarated.

8. How old is Hornblower at the opening of this short story?
(a) About 18.
(b) About 31.
(c) About 29.
(d) About 23.

9. What does the admiral tell Hornblower?
(a) To wait for his new command there.
(b) To go home and wait for new orders.
(c) To go get something to eat and then report to his new post.
(d) To take the sealed packet to London.

10. With whom does Hornblower meet?
(a) Mr. Marsden.
(b) Admirals Pembrook and Huffington.
(c) Admiral Pembrook.
(d) The Prince of Wales' aide de camp.

11. Who is Mr. Barrow?
(a) The secretary to Admiral Pembroke.
(b) The assistant to the secretary to the admiralty.
(c) The Prince of Wales' aide de camp.
(d) The secretary to Admiral Huffington.

12. Where does Hornblower go before leaving the French brig?
(a) To the bridge.
(b) To the Captain's quarters.
(c) To the topmast.
(d) To the poop deck.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower suggest to Baddlestone about the papers from the French brig?

2. Who is O'Shaughnessy?

3. What is the sentence passed upon McCool?

4. What surprises Marsden when Hornblower looks at the document?

5. What bargain does McCool strike with Hornblower?

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