Is $\text{Hom}(-,B)$ an exact functor?

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Is $\text{Hom}(-,B)$ an exact functor? In other words, if $$0\to A\to B\to C\to 0$$ is an exact sequence, then is this mapped to an exact sequence by this functor?

I know that this is a contravariant functor, and that the image has an injective map. I'm not sure about the surjection though.