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

2. About what does Hornblower think all night?
(a) His son.
(b) Maria.
(c) Death.
(d) Laura.

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

4. What do the men encounter downriver?
(a) A patrol of ten French soldiers.
(b) A waterfall.
(c) One of the English spies that is following them.
(d) A patrol of ten mercenaries.

5. To whom is Marie married?
(a) Louis-Marie.
(b) Marcel.
(c) Charles.
(d) Antoine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Hornblower convicted?

2. Who is commanding the English fleet that is attacking in the harbor?

3. Who is Lady Barbara Leighton?

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

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

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