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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower witness ashore?
(a) The routing remnants of the Spanish Royalist forces.
(b) The torching of Puerto Cabo.
(c) A massacre of the rebels.
(d) The hanging of Bolívar.

2. What happens while Hornblower is in the garden area during the ball?
(a) He is surrounded by a group of young women.
(b) He encounters the captain of the Estrella who punches him out.
(c) He is grabbed, gagged and dragged off at knifepoint.
(d) He faints from the heat.

3. How is Ramsbottom's vessel armed?
(a) Two six-pounder cannons and ten twenty-four-pounder carronades.
(b) The vessel is not armed, but there are light arms issued to the crew.
(c) Just two six-pounder cannons.
(d) Three twenty-four-pounder carronades.

4. What bay does Hornblower look out over where he is sitting on a rocky ledge?
(a) Hispaneola.
(b) Jamaicana.
(c) Metriola.
(d) Montego.

5. To where does the Clorinda return?
(a) Curaçao
(b) Puerto Cabello.
(c) Cuernavaca.
(d) Puerto Rico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hooper order?

2. Who calls on Hornblower back on the Clorinda?

3. What happens as the sea anchor deploys?

4. Where does Hornblower have the Clorinda's mortar mounted?

5. Who does Hooper consider expendable?

(see the answer key)

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