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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives after Hornblower?
(a) Spendlove.
(b) No one.
(c) Captain Fell.
(d) Mr. Hough.

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

4. Who goes into the pirate's caves with a white flag?
(a) Spendlove.
(b) Hornblower.
(c) Captain Fell.
(d) Hooper.

5. What was the one thing Hornblower had not planned upon?
(a) That the pintle would hold fast.
(b) That the pintle would be completely jerked off the ship.
(c) The the sea anchor would cause the Estrella to keel over so badly.
(d) That there would be so much cargo on the Estrella.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a drogue?

2. What is the name of the present flagship?

3. Upon whom does Hornblower decide to keep a close watch?

4. How do the men of the Clorinda construct a large, truncated cone?

5. How does Spendlove escape?

(see the answer key)

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