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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower offer?
(a) To go back and set explosives in the caves.
(b) To allow Hooper the use of the Clorinda.
(c) To take care of the problem with the pirates.
(d) To sail up the coast and draw the pirates with him.

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

3. Why is Fell always poor?
(a) He has ten children to raise.
(b) He maintains an extravagant wife in England.
(c) He was the third son of a Baron and thus inheirits little.
(d) He has a gambling problem.

4. What concerns Hornblower about Cambronne's possible destination and purpose?
(a) It could cause Spain to declare war on France and England could be dragged into such action.
(b) It could liberate Barbados from English rule.
(c) It could embroil Europe in a round of costly bloodshed.
(d) It could upset the balance of power in the West Indies.

5. What causes Hornblower to misread Cambronne's pretext for departing the gala?
(a) Sharpe assures Hornblower that Cambronne is being genuine.
(b) He is laywaid by a beautiful woman.
(c) Too much wine.
(d) Hornblower thinks Cambronne is a gentleman and as such would not lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a drogue?

2. What does Hornblower tell Cambronne?

3. How do the men of the Clorinda construct a large, truncated cone?

4. Where does the Crab intercept the Daring?

5. Who comes into the room when Hooper and Hornblower are having breakfast?

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