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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who calls on Hornblower back on the Clorinda?
(a) Bolívar.
(b) Spanish and Dutch officials.
(c) Ramsbottom.
(d) The captain of the Helmond.

2. Why is Governor Hooper outraged?
(a) Because Ramsbottom elopes with Lucy Hough.
(b) Because of English intervention in Venezuela.
(c) Because Lucy Hough told her father that Hornsblower had agreed to marry her.
(d) Because the English conducted manuevers too close to shore and the sound of the gun scare the locals.

3. What happens after they ship fires a few more times?
(a) The surviving pirates surrender.
(b) The pirates are all dead.
(c) The pirates flee overland.
(d) The pirates kill themselves.

4. What legend does Hornblower recall upon hearing the news from the governor?
(a) The legend of Napoleon's birth.
(b) The legend of Julian of Norwich.
(c) The legend of Napoleon's youth.
(d) The legend of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

5. 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 captain of the Estrella drunk.
(c) Get the governor drunk.
(d) Get the governor to turn his head from Hornblower's activities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does he feel about what he is anticipating?

2. What keeps the ship from sinking?

3. How does Hornblower confound the foreign embassies and get them off his ship?

4. Where does Hornblower direct the Crab to sail?

5. When does Barbara arrive?

(see the answer key)

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