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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been executed aboard the Clorinda while Hornblower is at the government house?
(a) Hornblower's plan has been executed.
(b) The Estrella has burned.
(c) The Estrella has left port.
(d) The Clorinda has grounded itself.

2. How is Hornblower's composure during the playing out of this drama with the Estrella del Sur?
(a) Diffident.
(b) Commanding.
(c) Euphoric.
(d) Anxious.

3. How does Johnson come across to Hornblower?
(a) As formal and disapproving.
(b) As an illiterate and ignorant man, scarcely more than a savage idiot.
(c) As a very bright and articulate man.
(d) As a wily fox.

4. Who follows the Estrella out of port?
(a) The Java and the Sutherland.
(b) The San Juan shore patrol.
(c) The Clorinda.
(d) A French frigate.

5. 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 silk.
(d) With bailing wire and wool.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is the cone affixed?

2. What does Hooper order?

3. What does Hornblower announce he must do?

4. Why is Hornblower in despair?

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

(see the answer key)

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