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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. Who pursues the French fleet?
2. Where are the officers of the Hotspur going?
3. What horrifies Hornblower about what Baddlestone says?
4. What is the Hotspur blockading?
5. What rank is Hornblower at the opening of the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hornblower suggest and how is it received by Meadows and Baddlestone?
2. Describe Hornblower's leave-taking from the crew of the Hotspur.
3. Who arrives at the Princess within a few hours after Baddlestone announces the results and why are they there?
4. What happens to the Hotspur?
5. Describe Captain Baddlestone.
6. How does Hornblower learn that Baddlestone overcharged him tremendously for passage aboard the Princess?
7. How is Hornblower feeling and why is that surprising to him?
8. What does Baddlestone say about the strategic situation between Villeneuve's fleet and that of Nelson's fleet?
9. How do the English plan on destroying Villeneuve's fleet?
10. What does Hornblower wonder about the court martial and who answers his question?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Horatio Hornblower is no exception. Hornblower's legendary powers of reasoning is juxtaposed with his nervousness and internalized self-doubt. Discuss the following:
1. Trace and analyze situations when Hornblower demonstrates his powers of reasoning and ability to act in a crisis. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis. Are Hornblower's strengths apparent in each of the three stories?
2. Trace and analyze Hornblower's character flaws, especially his nervousness and self-doubt, offering specific examples of these flaws in your discussion. Are these flaws apparent in each of the three stories?
3. Compare the young Hornblower from Horn to the older Hornblower in HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS to the elderly Hornblower in "The Last Encounter." How are they alike? What traits are apparent in each selection? How has Hornblower matured?
Essay Topic 2
Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss one of the following:
1. Compare/contrast the characters of Meadows and Baddleston. How are they alike? How are they different? Do you think Hornblower is more sympathetic towards one or the other? Why? Be specific and give examples.
2. Compare/contrast the characters of Lieutenant Bush to that of Hornblower. How do their personalities/abilities compare? Who seems more likely to climb the ranks within the navy. Why? With whom would you rather work? Be specific and give examples.
3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples. (Consider Meadows, Baddlestone, Marsden, Bower, and Claudius in the novel. Consider McCool in Hornblower's Temptation. Consider Brown, Barbara and Napoleon III in The Last Encounter.)
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation with Hornblower providing transportation to Napoleon III in "The Last Encounter."
2. Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use of and meaning of Captain Baddlestone's name, Hornblower's name, the weighted packet, the vessel named Princess...and three other symbols you choose to analyze.
3. Discuss the use of foreshadowing in literature. What is the purpose of foreshadowing? Cite 3 examples of foreshadowing and how it is used to indicate events to come in the Hornblower During Crisis, "Hornblower's Temptation, and "The Last Encounter."
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