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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon whom does Hornblower decide to keep a close watch?
(a) Sharpe.
(b) Cambronne.
(c) Johnson.
(d) The French diplomat visiting New Orleans.

2. What does Cambronne bewail?
(a) The loss of his cause in Barbardos.
(b) That Hornblower has figured out Cambronne's plan.
(c) Napoleon's death.
(d) That his wife is captive.

3. Who is Mr. Cloudesley Sharpe?
(a) The English Diplomat to the United States.
(b) A distant relative of Hornblower who has a merchant fleet docked out of New Orleans.
(c) His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General.
(d) His aide-de-camp.

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

5. About how many vessels does Hornblower command?
(a) 55.
(b) 3.
(c) 68.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might the political situation between England and the United States be described?

2. Where does the Crab intercept the Daring?

3. How does Cambronne express his anguish?

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

5. What is Hornblower's position as the novel opens?

(see the answer key)

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