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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. 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 not in his right mind.
(c) Brown is a seaman and following orders.
(d) Brown is a prisoner who Hornblower is holding for ransom.

2. What does Napoleon do (April 1814) not long after Hornblower secures Rouen?
(a) Surrenders.
(b) Makes a last stand in Paris.
(c) Commits suicide.
(d) Abdicates.

3. What does Hornblower plan to do with the militia?
(a) Send them back to England.
(b) Ready them for orders from Wellington.
(c) Attack the nearby city of Honfleur.
(d) Advance on the city of Rouen.

4. What does Hornblower read in the newspaper from England?
(a) Napoleon is assembling troops to attack Leipzig.
(b) Lieutenant Chadwick is exiled to Jamaica.
(c) A gossip column piece, insinuating his wife is having an affair.
(d) An account of his actions with the Flame.

5. Who leads the force to attack the troops Napoleon is sending to take back Le Havre?
(a) Captain Bush.
(b) Colonel Dobbs.
(c) Commodore Hornblower.
(d) The visiting royal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Brown propose to marry?

2. What is the date that Hornblower notes is the final day of the insurgent effort?

3. What happens when Hornblower arrives at Rouen?

4. Why is royalty coming to Le Havre?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Two important historical events follow soon after Hornblower's capture of Rouen. What are they? Why are they significant?

2. What are some of the reasons that Hornblower doesn't return immediately to England?

3. What is Napoleon Bonaparte's response to Le Havre's liberation? Why?

4. With the wars end, what decision does Barbara make that puts a further strain on her relationship with Hornblower?

5. How does Hornblower react to Barbara's presence?

6. What does Hornblower have the English troops do at the end of the Mayor Momas' ceremony, and why is this significant?

7. Who surprises Hornblower by visiting him at Le Havre? Why is this surprising?

8. Why doesn't Hornblower go to Vienna with his wife Barbara?

9. In the end, no fighting is necessary at Rouen, why?

10. Why does Hornblower's decision to go back to France make Brown so happy?

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