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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. What do the English do with the two long boats?
(a) Keep them moored to the Princess.
(b) They are sunk.
(c) Take them to the French brig.
(d) Board them an head for land.

7. What impresses Marsden about Hornblower?
(a) Hornblower's intelligence and powers of observation.
(b) Hornblower's willingness to do what needs to be done.
(c) Hornblower's keen insight.
(d) Hornblower's connections.

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

9. 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) How to keep McCool from making a speech at his hanging.
(d) Letting McCool escape.

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

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

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

13. What does Hornblower do with the sea chest?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Throws it overboard.
(c) Rips it apart.
(d) Moves it into his room.

14. Who is O'Shaughnessy?
(a) An alias for McCool.
(b) No one of note.
(c) An alias for Yeats.
(d) An Irish spy for the British navy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the secretary believe about the weighted packet?

4. Who will Hornblower be shortly meeting after he says yes to the mission?

5. Why does Baddlestone turn the papers over to Hornblower?

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