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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower decide to do with the sea chest?
(a) Give it to Captain. Sawyer.
(b) Send it on to the widow with the cash.
(c) Send it on to the widow without the cash.
(d) Toss it overboard.

2. What do the Englishmen do upon arriving at the French brig?
(a) Punch holes in it so it will sink.
(b) Sweep the deck clear of French sailors.
(c) Negotiate a surrender.
(d) Set it afire.

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

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

5. What does McCool give Hornblower?
(a) His gold cufflings.
(b) His knife.
(c) His favorite sword.
(d) A letter full of platitudes and a bizarre poem.

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

7. Why does Baddlestone turn the papers over to Hornblower?
(a) Baddlestone does not know how to go about getting them to the right people.
(b) Baddlestone is afraid of getting pressed into service.
(c) Baddlestone suggests that Hornblower will gain prestige by presenting them.
(d) Baddlestone does not want to deal with them.

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

9. What surprises Marsden when Hornblower looks at the document?
(a) That Hornblower is that interested in the papers.
(b) Nothing would surprise Marsden about Hornblower.
(c) Hornblower knows the Duke's seal.
(d) Hornblower is able to read French.

10. Who will Hornblower be shortly meeting after he says yes to the mission?
(a) Claudius.
(b) Duke Ballard.
(c) Count Miranda.
(d) Count Velaquez.

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

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

13. What does Hornblower suggest could be used from the document?
(a) That they could use Napoleon's signature to create a false treaty that would then be circulated.
(b) That they could set up an ambush at the location mentioned.
(c) That the seal and signature could be copied and false orders created.
(d) That they could use Josephine's signature to make Napoleon doubt her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what ship is Hornblower assigned?

2. What does Hornblower realize from the poem?

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

4. What does Hornblower order the men to do to the French brig?

5. What is Hornblower to keep McCool from doing?

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