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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. Who acts as Hornblower's servant on board the Porta Coeli?
(a) A midshipman assigned to him.
(b) Hornblower takes care of his own needs.
(c) As per tradition, the oldest sailor on board.
(d) Brown, Hornblower's coxswain.

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

3. What happens to one of Hornblower's previous ships, the Sutherland?
(a) It is damaged so badly that retires from duty.
(b) It is renamed the Phoenix.
(c) Hornblower surrenders it to the French.
(d) It sinks after a battle off the Normandy coast.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the French do when the Flame starts sailing to shore?

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

3. How does Hornblower remember Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?

4. How does Hornblower know Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?

5. What is Horatio Hornblower's rank?

Short Essay Questions

1. Captain Freeman offers to read Hornblower's fortune using tarot cards. What does he see and how does Hornblower react? Why does C. S. Forester include this scene in the book?

2. What does Hornblower's plan to deal with mutineers depend on?

3. What is Horatio Hornblower's state of mind at the beginning of the book? Why is he feeling this way?

4. Why is suppressing the mutineers particularly difficult for Hornblower?

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

6. What type of deal is offered to Hornblower on behalf of the Mayor of Le Havre? Why?

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

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

9. Hornblower is surprised after speaking with the leader of the mutineers, why?

10. Other than the prize money, why does Hornblower want to capture the French East India ship?

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