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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. Who builds a boat?
(a) Bertrand and his sons.
(b) Felix and his son-in-law.
(c) Hornblower and Brown.
(d) Bush and Brown.

2. What does Hornblower encounter as he and Frere are traveling?
(a) Peace and solitude.
(b) Jeering crowds.
(c) Cheering crowds.
(d) Resistence to his staying in the Navy.

3. What happens as weeks pass?
(a) Bush is still very weak and bedridden.
(b) Bush fully recovers.
(c) Hornblower receives a letter from his wife.
(d) Brown learns to speak fluent French.

4. How does the riverbed change?
(a) From sand to gravel.
(b) From dark silt to light sand.
(c) From sand to large rocks and boulders.
(d) From heavy rock to gravel to sand.

5. Of what does the fleet commander inform Hornblower?
(a) That Hornblower will assume command of the HMS Java.
(b) That Hornblowr faces forced retirement.
(c) That Hornblower is to receive the Navy Service Medal.
(d) That Hornblower is under official arrest pending court martial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men encounter downriver?

2. In what way does Hornblower answer the Count?

3. Why must they find another boat?

4. Where do the men spend their first night in France?

5. What is Hornblower relieved to be doing at the end of the day?

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