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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is Hornblower told to wait in station when he asks permission to find water?
(a) Six days.
(b) Four days.
(c) Three days.
(d) Five days.

2. How does the person Hornblower meets with after his wedding describe the Peace of Amiens?
(a) Shaky.
(b) Reticent.
(c) Solid.
(d) Unreliable.

3. What is the first dinner made for Hornblower by Grimes's replacement?
(a) Coffee cake and pork rinds.
(b) Lobster cutlets.
(c) Rice and beef gravy.
(d) Fish stew.

4. Why is Hornblower so tense when the Loire is pursuing the Hotspur?
(a) All of these.
(b) He has less than half the cannon power.
(c) His ship is half the size.
(d) He does not know the political status.

5. What does Cotard claim to be when he is approached by a French guard?
(a) A defector.
(b) A fisherman.
(c) A lost French soldier.
(d) A merchant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What increases in the army encampments on shore after Christmas?

2. How is Brest primarily accessed?

3. How does Hornblower appear on New Year's Eve?

4. What does Hornblower update over the first summer at war?

5. How did Grimes die?

(see the answer key)

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