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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 necessitated the multi-tiered system?

2. What is Hornblower's wife's name?

3. What does Hornblower hear from Maria?

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

5. What is inside the package with the orders sent by Hornblower?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the French merchant ships get by the blockade?

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

3. How is Hornblower able to be attentive to his wife even though he is to sail away the next day?

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

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

6. What does Hornblower need to make his plan to destroy the semaphore successful?

7. How does Hornblower feel right before his wedding, and what does he do?

8. What does Hornblower do before opening his commands from Cornwallis?

9. What gift does Maria give Hornblower before he leaves, and what is this symbolic of?

10. What was the damage caused by the ship-to-shore action?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Doughty's role in this book, and what attributes in Hornblower does he reveal by his brief presence in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Hornblower changes a lot from the beginning of the book to the end. Compare and contrast Hornblower's character at the beginning of the book to his character at the end of the book.

Essay Topic 3

How does Hornblower show compassion to Grimes, and what will the long reaching effects of this kindness be?

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