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

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

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

4. Why must they find another boat?
(a) Their sank when they hit a sandbar.
(b) They want to send it back to its owner.
(c) Theirs is too noticeable.
(d) Theirs is unsuitable for the high seas.

5. Who does he notice laboring at the docks?
(a) Many Americans.
(b) Captured English sailors.
(c) Captured English citizens.
(d) Chain gains of slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor do to help Bush?

2. What is the Witch of Endor?

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

4. What delights Hornblower?

5. How long has it taken the men to travel about 400 miles?

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