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

2. What effect does the lack of sleep have on Hornblower?
(a) He sees confused images in a dreamlike state.
(b) He gets seasick.
(c) He almost orders the vessel to head in the wrong direction.
(d) He almost loses control of the men.

3. What happens as weeks pass?
(a) Bush fully recovers.
(b) Brown learns to speak fluent French.
(c) Bush is still very weak and bedridden.
(d) Hornblower receives a letter from his wife.

4. How does escape by river enhance their chance of success?
(a) Because they are traveling faster than a message can go overland.
(b) They cannot be seen from shore because the river is so wide.
(c) They are sailors and thus do better on water.
(d) They do not have to worry about food and water.

5. About what does Hornblower continue to worry?
(a) His position in the Navy.
(b) Why they are no longer searching for them.
(c) His escape plans.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Bush in the morning?

2. What delights Hornblower?

3. What happens when Hornblower withdraws the final ligature from Bush's stump?

4. Who will the men pose as?

5. What intrigues Hornblower as he observes the activities of the harbor?

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