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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22, 23, and 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do sailors believe people from Braun's homeland to be?
(a) Shapeshifters.
(b) Spies.
(c) Ruthless murderers.
(d) Evil warlocks.

2. What disease does Hornblower catch in the siege?
(a) Syphillus.
(b) Typhus.
(c) The plague.
(d) Small Pox.

3. What does Hornblower hear on the ship that worries him on his first day aboard?
(a) A crashing liquid sound.
(b) A strange thumping.
(c) A constant scratching.
(d) A low but shrill humming.

4. Who notices from Hornblower's actions that something exciting will happen while passing through the Sound?
(a) Bush.
(b) Briggs.
(c) Braun.
(d) Brown.

5. What does Clarke do when Hornblower has his ship boarded?
(a) Jumps overboard.
(b) Stabs himself.
(c) Surrenders.
(d) Shoots himself in the head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Hornblower from being able to use his bomb ketches?

2. What does Hornblower hear as he discusses the impossibility of war?

3. What weakness does the French army have when the defectors join Hornblower's troops?

4. What ship carries Hornblower home to England?

5. What kind of defectors does Hornblower and Essen train?

(see the answer key)

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