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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How doesl Hornblower get to the Flame?
(a) Sail on the Flame's sister ship.
(b) Pay for passage aboard an American ship to France and then make his way overland.
(c) Use his contacts and hire blockade runners willing to take him.
(d) Sail incognito on a fishing boat.

2. How does Hornblower know the captain of the Porta Coeli?
(a) They do not know each other.
(b) He serves under Hornblower.
(c) They are schoolmates.
(d) Their wives are friends.

3. 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 help Hornblower regain the Flame.
(c) The French at Le Havre has no reason to trust the mutineers.
(d) The mutineers change their minds once they see Hornblower in action.

4. What is Hornblower afraid of happening on the Flame?
(a) The crew delibrately sink the ship.
(b) The crew set fire to the Flame.
(c) The crew surrenders to the French.
(d) The crew hang Lieutenant Chadwick.

5. Who promises the mutineers immunity and a pension for every man from the age of sixty?
(a) The citizens of Le Havre.
(b) The Admiralty.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Marie Therese, Empress, Queen and Regent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel Sweet show Hornblower that surprises him?

2. How is it possible that Hornblower's plan with the the Porta Coeli masquerade to work?

3. What happens after Hornblower captures the French gunboat in the battle at Le Havre?

4. What is Horatio Hornblower's rank?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to his rank, Hornblower is also well-connected through other ways, how?

2. Why is Hornblower worried about the reactions of the Porta Coeli's crew to the mutiny on the Flame?

3. How does C. S. Forester show Hornblower's resourcefulness?

4. How does Captain Bush react to Captain Freeman's talent for reading fortunes?

5. How does C. S. Forester show that Hornblower has the "common touch" in his interactions with men?

6. After the fighting, how many ships does Hornblower end up with and what does he do with them?

7. What does the Admiralty do on Hornblower's news of the Flame and the possible surrender of Le Havre?

8. What does Hornblower think of Captain Bush's reaction to Freeman's fortune-telling abilities?

9. What happens to the mutineers after the French East India ship is captured?

10. What does LeBrun tell Hornblower about the latest imperial dispatches from Paris? What does this news suggest about the war?

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