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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ideal situation once the Estrella reaches high seas?
(a) The Estrella will sink.
(b) The Estrella will becalm.
(c) The waves will be high enough to make the sea anchor work optimally.
(d) The sea anchor will slow down and the Clorinda will be able to close and board.

2. What does Hornblower instruct the men of the Crab to do?
(a) To follow the Daring wherever she goes.
(b) To investigate the nature of the cargo on the Daring so far as is practicable.
(c) To assassinate Cambonne.
(d) To rough up some of the Daring crew to intimidate them.

3. Why is Hornblower in despair?
(a) For not being able to persuade Cambronne to change his course.
(b) For giving his word as an officer and gentleman when it was a lie.
(c) For having to threaten the life of a woman.
(d) For trusting Sharpe as to Cambronne's intentions.

4. Why is Fell always poor?
(a) He maintains an extravagant wife in England.
(b) He has a gambling problem.
(c) He was the third son of a Baron and thus inheirits little.
(d) He has ten children to raise.

5. Where does Hornblower direct the Crab to sail?
(a) The Tobago Channel.
(b) Cape Horn.
(c) St. Helena.
(d) The Straits of Magellan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hornblower see his future?

2. Who is Mr. Cloudesley Sharpe?

3. How do Hornblower and Fell differ in their opinion of the situation?

4. How does Hornblower deliver the lie to Cambronne?

5. Where does Cambronne say the Daring will now sail?

(see the answer key)

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