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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Hooper furious?
(a) The way Hornblower demands a pardon for the pirates.
(b) The way Mr. Hough treats Hornblower.
(c) The cost of the search party.
(d) The way Hornblower humiliates Lucy.

2. What does Hornblower order Spendlove to do?
(a) Board the Estrella and ask for asylum.
(b) Board the Estrella as a new hand and plant a bomb belowdecks.
(c) Suggest Hornblower's plan to capture the Estrella to Fell.
(d) Go ashore and wait for Hornblower's signal.

3. What cargo does the Estreela del Sur often carry?
(a) Rum and cigars from Cuba.
(b) Arms and ammo for the war in Brazil.
(c) Tobacco from the Southern states.
(d) Slaves.

4. How is Ramsbottom's vessel armed?
(a) Two six-pounder cannons and ten twenty-four-pounder carronades.
(b) Three twenty-four-pounder carronades.
(c) The vessel is not armed, but there are light arms issued to the crew.
(d) Just two six-pounder cannons.

5. Where does Ramsbottom say he is going to sail?
(a) The Caribbean.
(b) To California around South America.
(c) Around Cape Horn.
(d) The Cape Fear area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Ramsbottom behaving emotionally when Hornblower encounters him?

2. Who realizes immediately that the chase for Estrella del Sur is futile?

3. Of what does the Governor remind Hornblower?

4. What was the one thing Hornblower had not planned upon?

5. What does Hooper flatly reject?

(see the answer key)

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