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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 and 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bush have great difficulty doing?
(a) Accepting Hornblower's friendship.
(b) Walking on his leg with the missing foot.
(c) Staying in France for so long.
(d) Speaking French.

2. 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.

3. What is Brown doing for the first time in his life?
(a) Tending to Bush's wound.
(b) Speaking on equal terms with Hornblower.
(c) Eating at a table with china and silverware.
(d) Traveling outside of England.

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

5. What disguise do the three men don?
(a) Spanish peasants.
(b) French peasants.
(c) That of Dutch customs officials.
(d) Dutch merchants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shares the interviewer's lack of concern for the welfare of those under his supervision?

2. Why do the men have to stay inside?

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

4. What offer by the Count does Hornblower decline?

5. What convinces Hornblower in his bright future?

(see the answer key)

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