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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 do at this point when he notes that their insurgency is at an end?
(a) Sets off with Brown to try and draw off the surrounding soldiers.
(b) Sets off on his own to scout the terrain.
(c) Gathers and dismisses what is left of the Comte's forces.
(d) Surrenders to the surrounding soldiers on condition that the others are allowed to go free.

2. What is the date that Hornblower notes is the final day of the insurgent effort?
(a) June 18, 1815.
(b) July 4th, 1815.
(c) May 18, 1815.
(d) July 14, 1815.

3. Who brings news that England is sending a VIP?
(a) Baron Momas.
(b) A Midshipman from the Admiralty.
(c) An older officer by the name of Haus.
(d) Lebrun.

4. Instead of returning to England, what does Hornblower decide to do while in Nevers?
(a) Stay in France with the Comte de Graçay to lead the local resistance.
(b) Go back to Rouen to find his services to the Duke.
(c) Go to Le Havre to find Captain Freeman.
(d) Go to Vienna to find Barbara.

5. What saves Hornblower, the Comte, and Brown from execution?
(a) Napoleon himself intervenes and commutes the sentences.
(b) The guns discharges incorrectly.
(c) The news that Napoleon suffers a tremendous defeat at the hand of Wellington.
(d) They are able to escape before the sentences are carried out.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Napoleon respond to the Comte and his followers?

2. To whom do the placards' promises not extend?

3. What does the Comte think of Brown's plans?

4. At the royal banquet, what does Hornblower realize about his wife?

5. What does Hornblower have to do with the mutineers who aren't pardoned?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is LeBrun able to do to make it easier for Hornblower to secure the harbor defenses at Le Havre?

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

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

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

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

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

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