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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rank are Bush and Brown?
(a) A First Lieutenant and Coxswain.
(b) Both midshipmen.
(c) First mate and Steward.
(d) First and second mate.

2. What happens to Hornblower's ship?
(a) It is torched by the French.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It is torched by the English.
(d) It is towed by the English out to sea.

3. How is Bush injured?
(a) He loses one eye and his arm.
(b) He is unscathed.
(c) He loses a foot and three fingers.
(d) He loses a foot.

4. What does the doctor do to help Bush?
(a) He gives him laudanum.
(b) He soaks him in a hot tub of water.
(c) He gives him feverfew.
(d) He removes one of the arterial ligatures.

5. Why is Bush at a critical stage of his recovery?
(a) He has not been wounded very long.
(b) The ligatures of arteries still extend beyond the wound and the stump has yet to heal over.
(c) His stump is still bleeding.
(d) He is psychologically hoping for death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hornblower find envious about Brown?

3. What is frightening that the men encounter?

4. What does the doctor tell Caillard?

5. What does the Innkeeper do after the men are loaded into the coach?

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