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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old is Brown?
(a) 44.
(b) 28.
(c) 17.
(d) 21.

4. Where is Captain Horatio Hornblower languishing?
(a) In a Spanish prison.
(b) In Tahiti.
(c) In a Dutch prison.
(d) In a French prison.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attends to Bush's stump?

2. When do the men escape?

3. What do they do with Caillard?

4. Who shares the interviewer's lack of concern for the welfare of those under his supervision?

5. What alarms Hornblower about the travel?

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