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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does placards promise for the Comte's followers?
(a) Clemency for all who are deserted.
(b) Imprisonment if they don't give themselves up.
(c) Transportation to a penal colony if they don't give themselves up.
(d) Death for all.

2. Who is with Hornblower the last time he is at the Chateau de Graçay?
(a) Captain Bush and Brown.
(b) No one.
(c) Brown.
(d) Barbara.

3. Who gives Hornblower his next assignment in the beginning of the book?
(a) Lord St. Vincent.
(b) No one, he already has an assignment.
(c) Prince of Wales.
(d) Duke of Wellington.

4. What does the success of Hornblower's plan the Porta Coeli masquerade mean?
(a) The mutineers have no choice but to commit treason on top of mutiny.
(b) The French at Le Havre has no reason to trust the mutineers.
(c) The mutineers change their minds once they see Hornblower in action.
(d) The French at Le Havre help Hornblower regain the Flame.

5. What news does Hornblower receive from one of the prisoners from the French East Indian ship?
(a) The Mayor of Le Havre recently dies.
(b) There is an outbreak of dysentery at Le Havre.
(c) Bonaparte loses another major battle at Leipzig.
(d) Le Havre plans to attack both the English ships.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hornblower talking to Lebrun in chapter eight?

2. What else does Brown tell Hornblower he plans to do?

3. What is the news from the war front (March 1814)?

4. What does Lebrun tell Hornblower about the latest imperial dispatches from Paris?

5. How does Hornblower remember Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?

(see the answer key)

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