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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is still with Hornblower when the French troops catch up with them?
(a) Just Brown.
(b) Just the Comte de Graçay.
(c) The Comte de Graçay and Marie, Brown and Annette.
(d) Brown, the Comte de Graçay, and Marie.

3. What position does Hornblower assume at Le Havre after the surrender of the town?
(a) Amicus curiae.
(b) Governor.
(c) Mayor.
(d) President of the newly formed Le Havre trading delegation.

4. What happens when Hornblower arrives at Rouen?
(a) He meets with no resistance.
(b) He has to retreat due to superior force.
(c) He is captured.
(d) He has to fight a duel.

5. What does Hornblower do instead of going to the Congress?
(a) Returns to England.
(b) Stays in Rouen.
(c) Boards the Porta Coeli and sails to Paris.
(d) Stays in Le Havre.

6. Why is Hornblower not happy and is awkward with his wife when she visits him at Le Havre?
(a) She is embarrassing him by singing his praises to everyone.
(b) He thinks she is having an affair.
(c) He is on active duty and is not comfortable having his wife around.
(d) She keeps trying to get him to retire and go back to England.

7. What is surprising about the city of Nevers?
(a) It is flying the white Bourbon flag.
(b) It is suffering from the plaque.
(c) It is deserted.
(d) It is overrun by the Bonapartists.

8. How does the Hornblower's impasse with the Duke d'Angoulême resolve itself?
(a) The Duke's advisors intervenes and works things out.
(b) The Mayor of Le Havre intervenes and works things out.
(c) Hornblower relents, but remembers this day.
(d) Lebrun provides some additional information that saves the day.

9. Why does Hornblower not stay in England as expected?
(a) He wants to join Barbara in Vienna.
(b) He wants to grab more prize money before the war ends.
(c) He wants to be with Marie la Vicomtesse de Graçay again.
(d) He wants to introduce Richard to the sea, now that it is safer.

10. What does the Duchess appoint the Comte de Graçay?
(a) General of the Royalist army.
(b) Military advisor to the Duke.
(c) Mayor of Nevers.
(d) Lieutenant-General of the King in the Nivernais.

11. What news does Colonel Dobbs pass onto Hornblower during the visit by the French royal at Le Havre?
(a) England is sending more reinforcements.
(b) Napoleon is sending troops to Le Havre.
(c) Wellington wants to give Hornblower a medal.
(d) His troops is recalled.

12. What does Barbara do that contributes to the drifting apart of her relationship with Hornblower?
(a) She refuses to sleep with Hornblower.
(b) She asks her brother to commend Hornblower to the Prince Regent.
(c) She accepts the role of unofficial hostess for England at the Congress.
(d) She refuses to stay in Le Havre and leaves for England.

13. Who is the VIP soon to arrive at Le Havre?
(a) The Prince Regent.
(b) A French prince, the Duke d'Angoulême.
(c) A French princess, Thérèse Marie.
(d) A French nobleman, the Comte d'Artois.

14. What does Hornblower have to do with the mutineers who aren't pardoned?
(a) Help the Admiralty reallocate them to other ships.
(b) Hold the court martial trial at Le Havre.
(c) Sign the court martial papers to hang them.
(d) Sign the court martial papers and sentence them to hard labor.

15. Who accompanies Hornblower on this trip to the Chateau de Graçay?
(a) His son Richard.
(b) Lord St. Vincent.
(c) His servant Brown.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the local magistrate tell Hornblower after he is captured by Napoleon's troops?

2. What does Hornblower think of the judgment for the mutineers?

3. How does Marie die?

4. Why is Hornblower angry at the Duke d'Angoulême?

5. Who does Hornblower and his wife meet at one of the state functions?

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