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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what does Cambronne's cargo consist?
(a) Slaves and rum.
(b) Muskets, French dress uniforms and military headwear peculiar to the time of Napoleon's greatest influence.
(c) Rum and tobacco.
(d) Cannons and pistols.

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

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

5. What ensures Fell's continued employment?
(a) Nothing, but he has plenty of money now.
(b) Hornblower's recommendation.
(c) The success with the Estrella del Sur.
(d) Spendlove's recommendation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crew of the Clorinda receive?

2. Why is Hornblower in New Orleans?

3. What happens as the sea anchor deploys?

4. Who is the Estrella del Sur?

5. What does Cambronne bewail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the vessel Hornblower's flagship spies.

2. How does Cambronne verify Hornblower's information and what is the reaction of Cambronne and the ship's crew?

3. Describe Fell's decision regarding the Estrella del Sur and the result of the decision.

4. How is Hornblower not up to his usual powers of observation and deduction?

5. What is the Daring?

6. What is the cargo of the Daring according to the men of the Crab?

7. If Cambronne is undertaking the mission which Hornblower believes he is doing, why is Hornblower concerned and what does Hornblower determine to do?

8. What vessel has Hornblower made his flagship in this chapter and what is the vessel doing?

9. How do Fell and Hornblower differ on whether the Estrella's capture is still possible and why would that be so devastating to Fell? What does Hornblower decide to do?

10. What would enable Fell to profit by the capture of the Estrella del Sur and by how much would he profit?

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