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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Cambronne demand as verification?
(a) To read the letter from Hornblower's superior.
(b) To escort the Crab back to port and verify it before the Daring will allow the Crab to depart without a fight.
(c) That Hornblower leave two of his officers on board Daring as hostages until Cambronne can verify the information.
(d) Hornblower's word as a gentleman and naval officer.

4. To what is the cone affixed?
(a) A bollard on the Clorinda.
(b) The dock.
(c) A length of chain.
(d) An old, sunken ship.

5. What type of freight will the Daring be taking on shortly?
(a) Comodities.
(b) Bonded.
(c) Wine.
(d) Guns.

6. Who follows the Estrella out of port?
(a) A French frigate.
(b) The Java and the Sutherland.
(c) The Clorinda.
(d) The San Juan shore patrol.

7. What does Hornblower connive to do?
(a) Get the captain of the Estrella drunk.
(b) Get the governor drunk.
(c) Get the governor to turn his head from Hornblower's activities.
(d) Have the slave ship's captain casually disregard some of the finer points of law to Hornblower's eventual favor.

8. What is a drogue?
(a) A captain gone astray.
(b) A sea anchor.
(c) A sailor engaged in nefarious trade.
(d) A ship that has only one mast.

9. What occupies Clorinda's days?
(a) Cruising in the West Indies in search of pirates or slave runners.
(b) Ferrying English settlers among the islands of the West Indies.
(c) Demonstrating seamanship to other English vessels.
(d) Sailing from port to port to supervise the dry dock activities of the West Indies fleet..

10. About how many vessels does Hornblower command?
(a) 55.
(b) 3.
(c) 17.
(d) 68.

11. What is Hornblower's new flagship?
(a) Atlas.
(b) Java.
(c) Clorinda.
(d) Leopard.

12. Where does Hornblower attend a gala?
(a) At Sharpe's estate.
(b) At General Layfayette's estate.
(c) At the New Orleans officer club.
(d) At Cambronne's estate.

13. Where does Hornblower make an official state visit?
(a) At the French embassy.
(b) At the Spanish embassy.
(c) At the government house in San Juan.
(d) Aboard the Estrella del Sur.

14. What does Hornblower order Spendlove to do?
(a) Board the Estrella and ask for asylum.
(b) Suggest Hornblower's plan to capture the Estrella to Fell.
(c) Go ashore and wait for Hornblower's signal.
(d) Board the Estrella as a new hand and plant a bomb belowdecks.

15. Who realizes immediately that the chase for Estrella del Sur is futile?
(a) Hornblower and Spendlove.
(b) Fell.
(c) No one.
(d) Only Hornblower of everyone on board.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Cambronne's cargo consist?

2. What does Hornblower tell Cambronne?

3. How does Hornblower deliver the lie to Cambronne?

4. What does Sharpe observe about Cambronne's route?

5. Where does the Crab intercept the Daring?

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