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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Brown doing for the first time in his life?
(a) Eating at a table with china and silverware.
(b) Tending to Bush's wound.
(c) Traveling outside of England.
(d) Speaking on equal terms with Hornblower.

2. Why do they go to a house they see in the distance?
(a) They know it is an English safe house.
(b) They will bribe the owner for help.
(c) They plan to kill the occupants and hide out.
(d) They will freeze to death otherwise.

3. How many sons does the Count have?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

4. At what does Hornblower marvel?
(a) The beauty of the countryside while Hornblower travels towards his death.
(b) At how bitter and hostile Caillard is.
(c) Bush's incredible constitution.
(d) The way Brown handles all the tasks necessary to the comfort of Hornblower and Bush.

5. How is Bush injured?
(a) He is unscathed.
(b) He loses a foot.
(c) He loses one eye and his arm.
(d) He loses a foot and three fingers.

6. Who hopes to face death with "colours flying"?
(a) Brown.
(b) Bush.
(c) Hornblower's crew.
(d) Hornblower.

7. What is frightening that the men encounter?
(a) French patrol boats.
(b) Ice floes.
(c) Rapids.
(d) Large whales.

8. Why does Hornblower choose Brown instead of his actual steward to make the journey to Paris with him?
(a) Because his steward is too injured to travel.
(b) Because Brown speaks French.
(c) Because of Brown's powerful build and iron determination.
(d) Because he wished to see his steward released in a prisoner exchange.

9. When does the Count think it will be safe to escape?
(a) April.
(b) In a few weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) Within a few days when the hunt is abandoned.

10. What is remarkable about Hornblower and the battle?
(a) He escapes uninjured.
(b) He is able to kill or wound 10 of the French crew himself alone.
(c) He could not see because of an eye injury yet still conducted the battle as commander.
(d) His ship is virtually uninjured.

11. As a final act of compassion, what does the Spanish warden give Hornblower?
(a) A purse of money for the long voyage.
(b) A testament to Hornblower's honor.
(c) A letter to the warden's brother-in-law to help Hornblower.
(d) A letter from Hornblower's wife.

12. Where do the men spend their first night in France?
(a) Etiennen.
(b) Rosas.
(c) Calysos.
(d) Cerbère.

13. What happens when Hornblower withdraws the final ligature from Bush's stump?
(a) The wound immediately appears better.
(b) Brown faints while watching.
(c) The wound bleeds and oozes pus.
(d) Bush faints.

14. What do the men encounter downriver?
(a) A patrol of ten French soldiers.
(b) One of the English spies that is following them.
(c) A waterfall.
(d) A patrol of ten mercenaries.

15. What is the condition of Hornblower's sword when it is returned?
(a) Broken in two.
(b) Polished.
(c) Hilt-less tang and the blade's gilding scraped off.
(d) Polished and sharpened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Hornblower see from his daily walks?

2. Who is Lady Barbara Leighton?

3. About what does Hornblower think all night?

4. Why are they taken there?

5. What does the Spanish warden demand?

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