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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as the Porta Coeli sights the Flame?
(a) Hornblower gives orders to fire.
(b) The Flame sends a boat over to negotiate.
(c) The Flame raises sails to meet them.
(d) Another ship appears.

2. What else does Lebrun want for helping Hornblower?
(a) An import license for colonial goods.
(b) An introduction to the Prince Regent.
(c) Hornblower's word of honor that the English don't know who sets up the deal.
(d) Money and a safe passage to America.

3. What does Hornblower think of the Flame's crew and their demands?
(a) Flogging is a cruel punishment and the crew has his sympathies.
(b) Chadwick obviously doesn't treat them harshly enough.
(c) They are lying and therefore have no case.
(d) The Admiralty should ignore the matter.

4. What does Lebrun tell Hornblower about the latest imperial dispatches from Paris?
(a) Taxes is repealed.
(b) Napoleon wins a crucial battle in Leipzig.
(c) The war is over.
(d) Conscription is mandated for all.

5. What else does Admiral Pellow send as reinforcements?
(a) Three hundred marines.
(b) 10 cannons.
(c) A battalion of soldiers who need transport to France.
(d) Sixty cavalry.

6. What does Hornblower do with Sweet's body?
(a) Keeps it in a barrel for transport back to the Admiralty.
(b) Burns it.
(c) Strings it up on the yardman as an example.
(d) Lets it sink into the sea.

7. What does Hornblower think of Captain Bush?
(a) He is young and naïve and needs a guiding hand.
(b) He is sly and devious and not to be trusted.
(c) He is a great officer, but now is too old for active duty.
(d) He is solid and dependable, but doesn't have much imagination.

8. What is typical of a crew's share of the prize money from a captured enemy ship?
(a) As much as a hundred pounds, depending on the type of ship.
(b) About ten pounds, depending on the type of ship.
(c) As much as the captain considered fair; it is captain's discretion.
(d) Choice of one item from the captured ship, in order of seniority

9. What does Hornblower think of the Napoleonic War?
(a) It is too bad that the Russians don't trounce Napoleon and his army.
(b) He thinks it is over before the end of the year.
(c) He wishes the Americans join in.
(d) He is sick of it and wishes it is over.

10. How does Nathaniel Sweet, the leader of the mutineers, die?
(a) He is killed by a French sailor.
(b) Hornblower shoots him as he swims towards the shore.
(c) The mutineers kill him hoping this excuses their behavior.
(d) He is killed by shot from the French gunboats.

11. How does the Porta Coeli crew feel about Hornblower?
(a) They all hate him.
(b) They think he's too full of himself.
(c) They are in awe of him.
(d) They have no idea who he is.

12. How does Hornblower know Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?
(a) Lieutenant Chadwick's wife is Hornblower's first cousin.
(b) Their families have neighboring estates.
(c) They serve as midshipmen together on the same ship.
(d) They are schoolmates.

13. Why is Hornblower talking to Lebrun in chapter eight?
(a) Lebrun is the prisoner's delegate.
(b) Hornblower personally interviews every prisoner.
(c) Lieutenant Freeman suggests it.
(d) Lebrun insists on the meeting.

14. What does Lebrun tell Hornblower he can do?
(a) Have Napoleon Bonaparte assassinated.
(b) Convince the Mayor to declare Le Havre for King Louis XVIII.
(c) Supply him with the best French brandy.
(d) Tell him the schedules and locations of other French East Indian ship.

15. How does Hornblower know Admiral Pellew?
(a) He is a neighbor.
(b) He is a schoolmate.
(c) He is an old family friend.
(d) He serves with him on the Indefatigable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lebrun tell Hornblower about Baron Momas?

2. What is a chasse-marée?

3. What does Hornblower plan to do with the Porta Coeli, after he comes back from meeting with the mutineers?

4. Why does the French react the way they do when the Flame sails into Le Havre?

5. What does Lieutenant Freeman offer to do for the other captains?

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