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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4, and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the horse driver doing?
(a) Drinking gin continually.
(b) Dozing on top of one of the horses.
(c) Cruelly whipping the horses.
(d) Singing in a loud voice.

2. What cannot be found?
(a) An alternate rider.
(b) Hay for the horses.
(c) An inn.
(d) A shady place to stop.

3. What does Hornblower have Horrocks do?
(a) Take a small boat with the coffin to the next barge in line.
(b) Hold the tiller while two men repair the leak.
(c) Start bailing.
(d) Take a small boat to find a new barge.

4. What does Hornblower do at Oxford?
(a) Leaves his wife and child in the care of a physician.
(b) Goes back to his cabin.
(c) Files a complaint with the ship's owner.
(d) Disembarks to finish the journey on horse.

5. What is parallel to the canal?
(a) A line of trees right along the bank.
(b) A footpath.
(c) A paved road.
(d) A bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is the oarsman deprecatory?

2. Where does the boat arrive at the Thames River proper?

3. What is a wherry?

4. What does the man at the tiller give up on doing?

5. Why do Hornblower and Tom propel the boat through the tunnel on foot?

(see the answer key)

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