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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ned Johnson?
(a) The leader of a band of ruffians.
(b) A liberated slaves off a slave ship.
(c) Mr. Hough's butler.
(d) A former member of a pirate band.

2. Who hires the Daring?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Cambronne.

3. How do the men of the Clorinda construct a large, truncated cone?
(a) With sail cloth and sparring.
(b) With sea sponges.
(c) With bailing wire and wool.
(d) With bailing wire and silk.

4. What bothers Hornblower about Johnson's plan?
(a) The governor's response.
(b) The timing having to be so exact.
(c) Abandoning Spendlove.
(d) Mr. Hough's response.

5. How does Lucy Hough greet Hornblower?
(a) With indifference.
(b) With disdain.
(c) With veiled hostility.
(d) Effusive and confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower do after lunch?

2. What does Lucy do when she next sees Hornblower?

3. What does Cambronne bewail?

4. Why does Hornblower advise against Hooper's plan as far as the pirates are concerned?

5. Where does Hornblower direct the Crab to sail?

(see the answer key)

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