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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hornblower board the Crab?
(a) He is unable to board the Crab.
(b) Unarmed and unescorted.
(c) By a large boarding party.
(d) By ropes at night.

2. Who is the Estrella del Sur?
(a) The flagship of the Spanish fleet in the West Indies.
(b) A retrofitted English vessel captured during the Napoleonic Wars.
(c) A retrofitted Spanish vessel that had been Napoleon's flagship.
(d) A large schooner capable of exceptional speed.

3. To what is the sea anchor attached?
(a) The Clorinda's rudder pintle.
(b) To the rudder pintle of the Estrella del Sur.
(c) The cone.
(d) The sunken ship.

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

5. Where does Hornblower direct the Crab to sail?
(a) The Straits of Magellan.
(b) Cape Horn.
(c) The Tobago Channel.
(d) St. Helena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ideal situation once the Estrella reaches high seas?

2. How do Cambronne's men receive Hornblower's news?

3. What is Hornblower's new flagship?

4. Where does the Crab intercept the Daring?

5. Of what is Hornblower suspicious?

(see the answer key)

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