2. Why is the packet weighted?
(a) It is just the weight of the heavy leather pouch.
(b) To make it seem more important.
(c) To make sure it would sink if the ship were attacked and the bearer would throw it overboard.
(d) There is a security trap around it.

3. What does McCool give Hornblower?
(a) A letter full of platitudes and a bizarre poem.
(b) His favorite sword.
(c) His gold cufflings.
(d) His knife.

4. What is Hornblower's special duty?
(a) To guard McCool.
(b) He is not given a special duty.
(c) To signal the moment by moment account of the court martial.
(d) To join the prize crew.

5. About whom are the signals concerned?
(a) Barry I. McCool.
(b) The Captain of the Josephine.
(c) The Captain of the Epérance.
(d) The Captain of the Papillion.

6. What does Hornblower suggest could be used from the document?
(a) That they could set up an ambush at the location mentioned.
(b) That the seal and signature could be copied and false orders created.
(c) That they could use Josephine's signature to make Napoleon doubt her.
(d) That they could use Napoleon's signature to create a false treaty that would then be circulated.

7. What do the English sailors do?
(a) Quietly stike the Princess' sails.
(b) Sink the long boat.
(c) Drop into the longboat and kill the crew.
(d) Change clothes with the French sailors.

8. Who does Meadows charge?
(a) No one; he is not on the boarding crew.
(b) The French captain.
(c) A large burley seaman.
(d) Three French marines.

9. What does the secretary believe about the weighted packet?
(a) That it is of Dutch rather than French origin.
(b) That it is not a ruse de guerre.
(c) That it is not authentic.
(d) That it is authentic but of no special importance.

10. What do the men on the Princess do to the French men who board?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Capture them.
(c) Strip them and then throw them overboard.
(d) Throw them overboard immediately.

11. Where is Hornblower going after he has visited his wife?
(a) To sleep.
(b) To the admiralty.
(c) To meet with his lawyer.
(d) To see his father.

12. When is McCool hanged?
(a) McCool jumps overboard and escapes hanging.
(b) In the morning.
(c) When the fleet returns to England.
(d) An hour after McCool gives Hornblower the letter.

13. How is Hornblower feeling as he arrives home?
(a) Content.
(b) Happy.
(c) Exhausted.
(d) Exhilarated.

14. What is the sentence passed upon McCool?
(a) Death by hanging.
(b) Life imprisonment.
(c) Ten years at hard labor.
(d) Death by firing squad.

15. With what is the document sealed that Hornblower delivered to the Admiralty?
(a) The newest seals of the empire.
(b) The emblem of the Duke of Muscovy.
(c) A seal that Napoleon has not used for several years.
(d) The document is not sealed.