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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Colonel decide to go ahead with the transport of Bush and Hornblower despite Bush's injuries?
(a) The Colonel thinks traveling is no worse as languishing in a prison.
(b) They want to execute him on Bastille Day.
(c) Bush is scheduled for execution so if he dies on the journey, it does not matter.
(d) They have a physician to travel with them.

2. What has he not yet told Bush?
(a) That Bush may face life imprisonment in Paris.
(b) That Bush's wife has died in childbirth.
(c) That he faces execution along with Hornblower.
(d) That gangrene has set into the stump.

3. Who attends to Bush's stump?
(a) A local physician.
(b) Hornblower.
(c) Brown.
(d) Calais.

4. About what does Hornblower fret when in Rosas?
(a) Why he has not yet been rescued.
(b) Whether the Dutch will join with Napoleon.
(c) If the Spanish will decide to float an Armada.
(d) The fate of his wife Maria.

5. What is the atmosphere in France because of Napoleon's reign?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Confused.
(c) Joyousness.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brown doing for the first time in his life?

2. What happens to his men daily?

3. What stands in the way of Hornblower marrying the love of his life?

4. Who hopes to face death with "colours flying"?

5. About what does Hornblower think all night?

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