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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower have to do for the royal banquet that he particularly dislikes?
(a) Keep up with the Duke d'Angoulême's drinking.
(b) Have his hair powdered.
(c) Wear all his medals.
(d) Make a speech.

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

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

4. What does Hornblower plan to do about Napoleon's show of force?
(a) Have soldiers board barges to attack the French.
(b) Send for reinforcements from England.
(c) Send Lebrun over to negotiate.
(d) Fortify the town for a long siege.

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

6. To whom do the placards' promises not extend?
(a) Only Hornblower.
(b) Only the Comte de Graçay.
(c) Hornblower, Brown, the Comte de Graçay, and Marie.
(d) Only the Comte de Graçay, and Marie.

7. At the royal banquet, what does Hornblower realize about his wife?
(a) She only marries him because her brother tells her to.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She enjoys being part of the political scene and the privileged crowd.
(d) She is in love with someone else.

8. Who is the Duke d'Angoulême's wife?
(a) The illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Cumberland and Anne Horton.
(b) The daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
(c) The niece of the English Prime Minister, William Pitt.
(d) The daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.

9. What does the Duchess Marie Thérèse tell Hornblower about Nevers and their reaction to Napoleon coming into power again?
(a) Nevers is neutral territory.
(b) Hornblower has to go to Vienna to represent the Duke and Duchess and Nevers.
(c) Large regions of Southern France declare in support of the King.
(d) Large regions of Southern France declare in support of Napoleon.

10. How does Marie die?
(a) She is trampled when her horse is shot from under her.
(b) She is bayoneted when she tries to escape.
(c) She bleeds to death in Hornblower's arms.
(d) She falls into the river and drowns.

11. How does Napoleon respond to the Comte and his followers?
(a) He sends assassins to take care of the ringleaders.
(b) He sends representatives to negotiate their surrender.
(c) He sends operatives to infiltrate their group.
(d) He sends forces to destroy them.

12. What does Hornblower end up doing about the mutineers?
(a) He writes to the Admiralty asking for leniency on their behalf.
(b) He asks the Duke d'Angoulême to commute their sentences.
(c) He refuses to sign the court martial papers.
(d) He makes a strong recommendation to the Admiralty to have Chadwick share the mutineers' fate.

13. What is Hornblower's relationship to Marie la Vicomtesse de Graçay?
(a) His wife Barbara's best friend.
(b) An ex-lover.
(c) His son's governess.
(d) His ex-governess.

14. What happens to Brown's wife, Annette?
(a) Brown defies Hornblower's orders and leaves with Annette.
(b) Hornblower makes her leave with the others to save her life.
(c) She tries to cross the river and drowns.
(d) She stays with Brown, refusing to leave her new husband.

15. Hornblower tries to save Brown by claiming what?
(a) Brown is there due to misguided loyalties and thus should not be held accountable.
(b) Brown is a seaman and following orders.
(c) Brown is a prisoner who Hornblower is holding for ransom.
(d) Brown is not in his right mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Hornblower's impasse with the Duke d'Angoulême resolve itself?

2. In opposing Napoleon, what do the Comte and his followers become?

3. What does the Duchess appoint the Comte de Graçay?

4. Where does the attack force go to meet Napoleon's troops?

5. What does Hornblower read in the newspaper from England?

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