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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. How many miles have the men traveled on the first day?
(a) 40.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 23.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor tell Caillard?

2. What is disgraceful about the French behavior after the English strike their colors?

3. What is frightening that the men encounter?

4. What does Hornblower announce as he knocks on the door?

5. As a final act of compassion, what does the Spanish warden give Hornblower?

(see the answer key)

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