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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Captain Bush's ship?

2. What does Lieutenant Freeman offer to do for the other captains?

3. What is the name of the French gunboat that Hornblower boards in the fight at Le Havre?

4. What news does Hornblower receive from one of the prisoners from the French East Indian ship?

5. How does Hornblower know Admiral Pellew?

Short Essay Questions

1. Being a sailor is dangerous and hard work, what do sailors expect in terms of monetary rewards?

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

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

4. How does C. S. Forester show that Hornblower has the "common touch" in his interactions with men?

5. At the beginning of the book, what is Hornblower's relationship with his wife like? How does C. S. Forester show this?

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

7. What does Hornblower think of the war and why is this rather ironic?

8. What happens to some of the other mutineers from the Flame?

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

10. What happens to show Hornblower that the French may be just as tired of the war as the English?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

C. S. Forester does not make Hornblower perfect. What are some of his flaws? Why does Hornblower have flaws?

Essay Topic 2

C. S. Forester wrote this book in the 20th century about people and events in the 19th century. How does C. S. Forester use language to give life to the period? Is he successful?

Essay Topic 3

Hornblower seems to be the only person in the book who is sympathetic to the plight of the mutineers. Why do you think this is the case? What motivates Hornblower to pardon and commute their sentences?

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