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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must the men discard?
(a) Their supplies.
(b) Their weapons.
(c) Their disguise as fishermen.
(d) Their boat.

2. What does Hornblower hope about Barbara?
(a) That she mourns his death.
(b) That she is well.
(c) That she will wait longer to find another man if her husband dies.
(d) That she is a widow.

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

4. Where are Hornblower and the other two taken?
(a) To the barn.
(b) To the library.
(c) To the kitchen.
(d) To the parlour.

5. Why is Bush at a critical stage of his recovery?
(a) His stump is still bleeding.
(b) He has not been wounded very long.
(c) The ligatures of arteries still extend beyond the wound and the stump has yet to heal over.
(d) He is psychologically hoping for death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attends to Bush's stump?

2. Who does Hornblower talk to after the English leave?

3. After passing through Blois, Chaumont, Amboise, Tour, and Langeais, what does Brown announce?

4. How does the riverbed change?

5. What happens to the searches?

(see the answer key)

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