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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 is Cotard's title?
(a) Lieutenant.
(b) Captain.
(c) Major.
(d) Commander.

2. How does Prowse feel during the chase by Loire?
(a) Amused.
(b) Pessimistic.
(c) Angry.
(d) Excited.

3. What station does Pellew hold?
(a) Admiral.
(b) Sergeant.
(c) Lieutenant.
(d) Captain.

4. What does Cotard claim to be when he is approached by a French guard?
(a) A lost French soldier.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A defector.
(d) A fisherman.

5. What does Pellew's ship give to the Hotspur?
(a) Food and ale.
(b) Directions and ammunition.
(c) Maps and letters.
(d) Water and letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests the ship-to-shore action at Brest?

2. What does Hornblower teach Grimes to do?

3. What is the Hotspur responsible for after the multi-tiered system is in place?

4. What does the admiral do to show his respect for Hornblower?

5. How many ships of the lines are with the Hotspur's squadron?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is found in the package sent by Cornwallis?

2. What does Hornblower do during the ship-to-shore action?

3. How does Hornblower feel about prize money, and how does he communicate this?

4. What does Hornblower do when he sees a French fisherman?

5. Why does Hornblower not have much in his own personal stores on the ship?

6. How does Hornblower get the one thing he needs to complete his plan to destroy the semaphore?

7. What does Hornblower find when he goes to punish Grimes?

8. How does Bush feel when a French merchant vessel sails by, and why?

9. What is the semaphore?

10. Why is Grimes so afraid of Hornblower?

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