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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is remarkable about Hornblower and the battle?
(a) He escapes uninjured.
(b) He could not see because of an eye injury yet still conducted the battle as commander.
(c) His ship is virtually uninjured.
(d) He is able to kill or wound 10 of the French crew himself alone.

3. What happens when Hornblower withdraws the final ligature from Bush's stump?
(a) Bush faints.
(b) Brown faints while watching.
(c) The wound immediately appears better.
(d) The wound bleeds and oozes pus.

4. How long has it taken the men to travel about 400 miles?
(a) 4 days.
(b) A little over a month.
(c) 16 days.
(d) About 10 days.

5. How does Hornblower try to save Bush from execution?
(a) Says Bush was under orders.
(b) By giving the interviewer false information.
(c) By writing Napoleon.
(d) By bribing the guards to get him away.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Bush in the morning?

2. What alarms Hornblower about the travel?

3. Who does the Count introduce?

4. How does Hornblower's interviewer act?

5. Why does the Count live in London?

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