Flying Colours Test | Final Test - Easy

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Flying Colours Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nickname of the commander of the fleet?
(a) Sad Face.
(b) Dismal Jimmy.
(c) Jimmy the Hand.
(d) Jimmy the Pirate.

2. How does Hornblower visualize his wife?
(a) He tries not to think of her.
(b) As a widow in mourning.
(c) As happy to be free of him.
(d) As finally able to become involved with her childhood love.

3. How does the fleet commander receive Hornblower?
(a) With coolness.
(b) With surprise.
(c) With indignation.
(d) He is unable to meet with Hornblower for a few days.

4. How many men were wounded?
(a) 33.
(b) 145.
(c) 580.
(d) 221.

5. Why must they find another boat?
(a) Theirs is unsuitable for the high seas.
(b) Theirs is too noticeable.
(c) Their sank when they hit a sandbar.
(d) They want to send it back to its owner.

6. What do the men carefully observe?
(a) The river's flow.
(b) The directions the fish swim.
(c) The angle of the sun.
(d) The way the foliage along the banks change.

7. Who builds a boat?
(a) Hornblower and Brown.
(b) Bertrand and his sons.
(c) Bush and Brown.
(d) Felix and his son-in-law.

8. Where is Hornblower often gazing?
(a) At the distant town of Nevers and the River.
(b) At Felix's daughter.
(c) At Marie.
(d) At Bertrand's daughter.

9. Where is the vessel Hornblower captured going?
(a) To drydock in Holland.
(b) To England with dispatches.
(c) No where; it will join this fleet.
(d) Back to help blockade the port from which it is stolen.

10. What is the fleet commander's response to Hornblower's account?
(a) He does not offer an opinion.
(b) He states that Hornblower has enjoyed the protection and guidance of divine providence.
(c) He states that Hornblower was promoted in absentia.
(d) He states that Hornblower is considered a traitor.

11. About what does Hornblower feel ashamed?
(a) His impatience with Bush's handicap.
(b) His fear of dying.
(c) His relationship with the Count's daughter-in-law.
(d) His envy of Brown's popularity.

12. What's the biggest problem of escaping once a vessel is secured?
(a) Sneaking past the local militia.
(b) Piloting through the difficult estuarial waters.
(c) Avoiding the cannons at the fort.
(d) Not being fired upon by British ships.

13. What happens as weeks pass?
(a) Brown learns to speak fluent French.
(b) Bush fully recovers.
(c) Bush is still very weak and bedridden.
(d) Hornblower receives a letter from his wife.

14. What happens to the searches?
(a) They are still occuring almost daily.
(b) They continue at sporadic times.
(c) They are intensified now thinking the men will relax their guard.
(d) They are discontinued.

15. Of what does the fleet commander assure Hornblower?
(a) That he will do all he can to ensure that Bush retains his field promotion.
(b) That Brown will be assigned to a vesself of his choice.
(c) That the commander's decree is routine procedure.
(d) That he will do all he can to keep Bush in the navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are two of the boats delayed at bit?

2. What disguise do the three men don?

3. What intrigues Hornblower as he observes the activities of the harbor?

4. What does Hornblower learn in a letter from Barbara?

5. How do the men propel the boat?

(see the answer keys)

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