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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower climb?
(a) The balustrade inside the ball room to retrieve a cat.
(b) A dangling rope ladder.
(c) The mast of the Clorinda to show new recruits how to do so.
(d) The garden wall.

2. What does Hudnutt claim?
(a) His hands are too delicate for Hurley.
(b) His knees are too weak for Cricket.
(c) His lip is too swollen from a fight to play.
(d) He could not play the piece with a B-flat note.

3. Of what does Cambronne's cargo consist?
(a) Muskets, French dress uniforms and military headwear peculiar to the time of Napoleon's greatest influence.
(b) Rum and tobacco.
(c) Cannons and pistols.
(d) Slaves and rum.

4. What is one thing Sharp and Hornblower are discussing?
(a) The Louisiana Purchase.
(b) The Boer Wars.
(c) The Napoleonic Wars.
(d) The slave trade.

5. What causes some friction between Hornblower and his wife?
(a) The insinuations about Hornblower and a certain married woman.
(b) The rumors about Lucy Hough and Hornblower.
(c) Hornblower insisting on accepting a new assignment.
(d) The Hudnutt case.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Helmond?

2. Who helped Hudnutt escape?

3. What does Hornblower order Spendlove to do?

4. Where do Hornblower and Barbara plan to stay for a few days?

5. Ultimately, what happens to the Estrella?

(see the answer key)

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