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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 the kitchen make?
(a) Fancy breads and pastries.
(b) Dried fruits and jerky.
(c) Cordon Bleu.
(d) Fifty pounds of ship's biscuits.

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

3. What vessel do the men spot?
(a) The Nelson.
(b) The Triumph.
(c) The Leopard.
(d) The Java.

4. What must the men discard?
(a) Their supplies.
(b) Their disguise as fishermen.
(c) Their boat.
(d) Their weapons.

5. Why are two of the boats delayed at bit?
(a) They are arguing about pursuit.
(b) Picking up men from the first boat which Hornblower sinks.
(c) They lose their oars.
(d) They acidentally ram each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hornblower able to bluster his way onto the cutter he decides to steal?

2. How does the riverbed change?

3. Why must the men exhibit extreme caution now?

4. How does Hornblower visualize his wife?

5. What worries Hornblower about their eventual arrival home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the French responding to the missing men and what finally happens that gives them some hope?

2. What characteristics of the three men enhance their disguises?

3. What is the writing style like in Chapters 11 and 12?

4. What was a major development with Hornblower's wife and how might that have changed his affair with Marie?

5. What does Hornblower reflect upon about his wife?

6. What would you say is the purpose of Chapters 11 and 12?

7. Why was the disguise as Dutch customs officials so suitable for where the men were going?

8. What is ideal about traveling on a river for escaped prisoners and how might that change?

9. What are Chapters 16 and 17 used for in this story?

10. What does Hornblower and Bush do with Marie and the Count to help pass the time? How does Bush do with it?

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