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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, 14, and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Bush in the morning?
(a) His stump is completely healed over.
(b) Much better.
(c) Feverish.
(d) He is near death.

2. Where is Hornblower often gazing?
(a) At Bertrand's daughter.
(b) At Felix's daughter.
(c) At Marie.
(d) At the distant town of Nevers and the River.

3. What alarms Hornblower about the travel?
(a) The fact that the people are so hostile to the Englishmen.
(b) The speed at which they are traveling.
(c) The bumps that cause Bush terrible agony.
(d) The way the French soldiers stay so close to the carriage.

4. When they are about 178 miles from Paris, what happens?
(a) Hornblower receives a secret message.
(b) Brown falls off the roof of the carriage and breaks his leg.
(c) A winter storm sets in.
(d) Caillard is shot by a sniper.

5. How does Hornblower get assistance from the local pilot?
(a) He threatens him.
(b) He offers him a high position in the English navy.
(c) He offers him a large bribe.
(d) He does not need a pilot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What's the biggest problem of escaping once a vessel is secured?

2. What effect does the lack of sleep have on Hornblower?

3. When do the men escape?

4. What worries Hornblower about their eventual arrival home?

5. What does Hornblower see that motivates him to form an escape plan?

(see the answer key)

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