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

2. Where does the attack force go to meet Napoleon's troops?
(a) Upriver from Le Havre, near a place called Caudebec.
(b) Downriver from Le Havre, near a place called Honfleur.
(c) To the harbor.
(d) To Harfleur, a small town outside of Le Havre.

3. What position does Hornblower assume at Le Havre after the surrender of the town?
(a) Governor.
(b) Amicus curiae.
(c) President of the newly formed Le Havre trading delegation.
(d) Mayor.

4. Why does Hornblower not stay in England as expected?
(a) He wants to join Barbara in Vienna.
(b) He wants to grab more prize money before the war ends.
(c) He wants to be with Marie la Vicomtesse de Graçay again.
(d) He wants to introduce Richard to the sea, now that it is safer.

5. 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 Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.
(c) The niece of the English Prime Minister, William Pitt.
(d) The daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower demand of the Mayor of Rouen?

2. Why is Hornblower particularly upset with the news about Captain Bush?

3. What does Hornblower have to do for the royal banquet that he particularly dislikes?

4. What happens when Hornblower and the French troops exchange gun fire?

5. What else does Brown tell Hornblower he plans to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. With Napoleon in power again, what does Hornblower do?

2. What happens to Marie at the end of the book and why is this significant?

3. What happens at the welcoming ceremony the Mayor of Le Havre conducts?

4. How does C. S. Forester show that the English admire and think well of Hornblower and his actions? What does this show us about Hornblower?

5. What does Hornblower plan to do with the militia sent to bolster Le Havre's defenses? Why?

6. With Le Havre declaring for the French King, what does Hornblower's superiors in England do?

7. How are Hornblower and the Comte saved from execution?

8. What does Napoleon's troops do to further decimate the morale and number of the Comte and his followers? Why?

9. Why is Hornblower conflicted about going back to France?

10. How is Hornblower captured at the end of the book?

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