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

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

3. What does Hornblower do the next morning after rescue?
(a) Delivers a more detailed accounting of their adventures.
(b) Sets the men he captured afloat in a small boat.
(c) Visits the men whom he liberated and offers them service in the English navy.
(d) Asks for permission to sail to England.

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

5. What is the surname of the host?
(a) de Guerria.
(b) de Ladon.
(c) de Bourbon.
(d) de Compte.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower realize?

2. What do the men put in their boat?

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

4. What is the outcome of the proceedings?

5. Where does Frere take Hornblower?

(see the answer key)

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