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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower do with Lieutenant Chadwick?
(a) Tries and finds him guilty of murder.
(b) Puts him in the brig with the rest of the mutineers.
(c) Sends him back to the Admiral Pellew with dispatches.
(d) Lectures him and then puts him back on active duty.

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

3. What does Lebrun tell Hornblower about Baron Momas?
(a) He is a captain in his own right and is in command of one of the gun boats.
(b) He is a staunch Bonapartist.
(c) His family business trades goods with the Americans.
(d) He is a spy for the English.

4. What is one of the last things LeBrun does before he is captured?
(a) Plots with Baron Momas to capture the English ships.
(b) Acts on the dispatches from Paris.
(c) Calculates the losses from this year's failed trading missions.
(d) Spends the night with his mistress.

5. What is Horatio Hornblower's rank?
(a) Lieutenant.
(b) Admiral.
(c) Commodore.
(d) Captain.

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

7. How does Hornblower get onto the Flame?
(a) He swings over on a rope when the two ships are close enough.
(b) He swims over.
(c) Freeman lowers a boat and Hornblower is rowed over.
(d) He jumps when the two ships are close enough.

8. What does Hornblower suffer from that he finds embarrassing?
(a) Fear of heights.
(b) Fear of lightning.
(c) Seasickness.
(d) Ear infections.

9. What does Hornblower do with the Flame's mutinous crew?
(a) He sends them all back to the England for a court martial.
(b) He has them all imprisoned in the brig.
(c) He puts them back under Lieutenant Chadwick's control.
(d) He pardons forty of them.

10. What type of ship is the Flame?
(a) A French gunboat.
(b) Twenty-four gun brig.
(c) East Indian merchant ship.
(d) Eighteen-gun brig.

11. What do the sailors think of Hornblower's daily ritual?
(a) The Commodore has very strange habits.
(b) They heartily approve.
(c) They think daily is unnecessary, weekly is good enough.
(d) They all follow his example.

12. Who is among the reinforcements that Admiral Pellew sends?
(a) An American spy.
(b) Captain Bush.
(c) Lieutenant Chadwick.
(d) Admiral Pellew.

13. What happens after Hornblower captures the French gunboat in the battle at Le Havre?
(a) He goes back to the Porta Coeli.
(b) He leads his men over to the Flame.
(c) He trips over a loose board and drops his sword.
(d) He stays on the French gunboat and waits to see what happens.

14. How does Chadwick react to his orders from Hornblower?
(a) He respectfully asks to stay with the Commodore.
(b) He resents Hornblower, but does as he is told.
(c) He demands his ship and crew back.
(d) He attacks Hornblower and has to be restrained.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives Hornblower his next assignment in the beginning of the book?

2. What happens to one of Hornblower's previous ships, the Sutherland?

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

4. What does Hornblower do once the fighting is over at Le Havre?

5. How does Hornblower remember Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?

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