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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. What does the Innkeeper do after the men are loaded into the coach?
(a) Slips Hornblower a note to tell him rescue is on the way.
(b) Tells Caillard he will pray for his hardened soul.
(c) Asks for double the fee since Bush's illness kept other customers away.
(d) Serves them ersatz coffee and breakfast.

2. What uniform does Hornblower, Brown, and Bush don once on board the cutter?
(a) American.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) None.

3. Why do the men have to man the sweeps?
(a) They need to manuever around the sandbars.
(b) They are being pursued.
(c) The wind has died.
(d) To keep the men disciplined.

4. Why is Hornblower thrown into the water?
(a) Brown accidentally knocks him in with an oar.
(b) He intentionally gets in the water.
(c) The boat hits a tree limb.
(d) The boat capsizes.

5. Why do they go to a house they see in the distance?
(a) They will freeze to death otherwise.
(b) They know it is an English safe house.
(c) They plan to kill the occupants and hide out.
(d) They will bribe the owner for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men encounter downriver?

2. What disguise do the three men don?

3. How does Hornblower visualize his wife?

4. About what does Hornblower continue to worry?

5. What happens to the searches?

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