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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower do as they are in the boat?
(a) Muses about his future.
(b) Learns wood carving from Brown.
(c) Teaches Bush more seamanship skills.
(d) Composes poetry to Marie.

2. What does Hornblower observe in the towns through which they pass?
(a) The evidence of war.
(b) The architecture.
(c) The women.
(d) The number of soldiers.

3. What alarms Hornblower about the travel?
(a) The speed at which they are traveling.
(b) The fact that the people are so hostile to the Englishmen.
(c) The bumps that cause Bush terrible agony.
(d) The way the French soldiers stay so close to the carriage.

4. What does Hornblower learn in a letter from Barbara?
(a) That Marie died quickly and peacefully.
(b) That she left her husband.
(c) That she adopted his son.
(d) That she is nursing her husband back to health.

5. For how long has Hornblower been without sleep?
(a) 72 hours.
(b) 40 hours.
(c) 24 hours.
(d) Almost a week

Short Answer Questions

1. What disguise do the three men don?

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

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

4. What happens to the vessel Hornblower stole?

5. Why are they taken there?

(see the answer key)

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