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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Captain Thomas Fell?
(a) The commander of the USS Constitution.
(b) The commander of the HMS Leopard.
(c) The commander of the HMS Java.
(d) The commander of the Estrella del Sur.

2. Ultimately, what happens to the Estrella?
(a) Its captain burns it to the waterline.
(b) It is captured.
(c) It manages to cut the sea anchor and get away.
(d) It sinks.

3. What is another topic of discussion between Sharp and Hornblower?
(a) Problematic letters of marque.
(b) Problematic retrofitting of steam vessels.
(c) Residing in the United States.
(d) The pending promotion of Hornblower to Admiral.

4. What does Fell figure he can earn by capturing Estrella del Sur?
(a) 100 pounds.
(b) 1000 pounds.
(c) Nothing since it's not a slave ship.
(d) A citation and reassignment out of the tropics.

5. How does Hornblower deliver the lie to Cambronne?
(a) Using his first mate.
(b) By signal flags.
(c) With a stony face and icy reserve.
(d) Through an intermediary.

6. How does Hornblower's flagship reach New Orleans?
(a) Via a steam tug.
(b) It doesn't; it stays out in deeper waters.
(c) Via a sail tug.
(d) Under its own sail.

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

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

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

10. What is one thing Sharp and Hornblower are discussing?
(a) The Boer Wars.
(b) The Louisiana Purchase.
(c) The slave trade.
(d) The Napoleonic Wars.

11. Upon whom does Hornblower decide to keep a close watch?
(a) The French diplomat visiting New Orleans.
(b) Cambronne.
(c) Sharpe.
(d) Johnson.

12. To what is the sea anchor attached?
(a) The cone.
(b) The Clorinda's rudder pintle.
(c) The sunken ship.
(d) To the rudder pintle of the Estrella del Sur.

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

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

15. 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 sea anchor will slow down and the Clorinda will be able to close and board.
(c) The Estrella will becalm.
(d) The Estrella will sink.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hornblower attend a gala?

2. What does the Clorinda do?

3. What cargo does the Estreela del Sur often carry?

4. Of what does Cambronne's cargo consist?

5. What does Cambronne demand as verification?

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