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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 and the group try to do to evade capture after being cornered by Napoleon's troops?
(a) Disguise themselves as French soldiers.
(b) Hide themselves in an abandoned farmhouse.
(c) Find a boat to cross the river.
(d) Swim downriver.

2. What does Hornblower have to do with the mutineers who aren't pardoned?
(a) Help the Admiralty reallocate them to other ships.
(b) Sign the court martial papers and sentence them to hard labor.
(c) Sign the court martial papers to hang them.
(d) Hold the court martial trial at Le Havre.

3. Who accompanies Hornblower on this trip to the Chateau de Graçay?
(a) No one.
(b) His son Richard.
(c) His servant Brown.
(d) Lord St. Vincent.

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

5. Who is the Duke d'Angoulême's wife?
(a) The daughter of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
(b) The niece of the English Prime Minister, William Pitt.
(c) The daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette.
(d) The illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Cumberland and Anne Horton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Brown's wife, Annette?

2. Why is Hornblower angry at the Duke d'Angoulême?

3. Who does Hornblower and his wife meet at one of the state functions?

4. At the Duke's banquet and reception, what does Hornblower do that ruins the night for his wife?

5. What type of reception does Hornblower receive when he arrives at the Chateau de Graçay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Mayor of Le Havre do when he meets Hornblower? Why is this significant?

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

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

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

5. How does Hornblower ruin the evening for his wife at the Duke's banquet and reception? Why is this significant?

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

7. On the evening of Brown's marriage to his sweetheart, the Comte relays some bad news to Hornblower. What is the news and how does it affect Hornblower?

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

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

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

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