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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after Spendlove follows Hornblower's orders?
(a) The warehouses along the docks accidentally catch fire.
(b) The bomb Spendlove plants fails to detonate.
(c) Fell relates the plan back to Hornblower.
(d) The Estrella refuses to allow Spendlove to board.

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

3. What bay does Hornblower look out over where he is sitting on a rocky ledge?
(a) Hispaneola.
(b) Metriola.
(c) Jamaicana.
(d) Montego.

4. What does Hornblower do after lunch?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Play cards with Johnson and his men.
(c) Meet with the governor.
(d) Talk about politics with Spendlove.

5. What does Hornblower learn from his wife, Barbara, about Ramsbottom?
(a) That Ramsbottom is being considered to be knighted.
(b) Ramsbottom has made a big splash in the English social scene and that the man is a millionaire.
(c) That Ramsbottom is suspected of running slaves.
(d) Ramsbottom became engaged to the Duke of York's daughter and broke it off, disgracing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Spendlove do as he recovers?

2. What does the Clorinda do?

3. Who calls on Hornblower back on the Clorinda?

4. What does Hooper order?

5. How does Spendlove escape?

(see the answer key)

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