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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. On the Porta Coeli traveling to meet the Flame, why is Hornblower unhappy with the storm?
(a) The ship is riding with the wind and gets there too quickly.
(b) One of the topsails rips due to the wind.
(c) The ship has to travel leeward, opposite to the direction of the Flame.
(d) The storm is preventing him from walking on deck.

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

3. What is the universal signal to show that there is a Captain in a boat?
(a) Givinig a wolf whistle.
(b) Holding up four fingers.
(c) Making a fist and touching the forehead.
(d) Waving with the left hand and then saluting.

4. What does Hornblower notice as he is about to go into battle at Le Havre?
(a) Lieutenant Freeman is nervous.
(b) How well the navigator is doing bringing the Porta Coeli around.
(c) It is going to rain soon.
(d) Brown is not standing beside him as usual.

5. 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 pardons forty of them.
(c) He puts them back under Lieutenant Chadwick's control.
(d) He has them all imprisoned in the brig.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hornblower know Lieutenant Augustine Chadwick?

2. How doesl Hornblower get to the Flame?

3. What does Lebrun tell Hornblower about the latest imperial dispatches from Paris?

4. What does Hornblower do with Lieutenant Chadwick?

5. What do the sailors think of Hornblower's daily ritual?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Hornblower kill Nathaniel Sweet, the leader of the mutineers?

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

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

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

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

7. As a midshipman, Hornblower is atypical, why?

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

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

10. What is Hornblower's attitude towards the mutineers?

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