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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who hires the Daring?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Cambronne.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Sharpe.

2. What bay does Hornblower look out over where he is sitting on a rocky ledge?
(a) Metriola.
(b) Montego.
(c) Jamaicana.
(d) Hispaneola.

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

4. What does Hornblower witness ashore?
(a) The hanging of Bolívar.
(b) The routing remnants of the Spanish Royalist forces.
(c) A massacre of the rebels.
(d) The torching of Puerto Cabo.

5. What does Hornblower hope?
(a) That the captain of the Estrella will be too drunk to sail well.
(b) That the Estrella will gain the high seas without detecting the sea anchor.
(c) Captain Fell will be quick enough to take advantage of the slowed down Estrella.
(d) That the Clorinda's increased speed because of off loading its cargo will now be fast enough to catch the Estrella.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barbara feel about the Hudnutt case?

2. Why is San Juan problematic as far as the capture of Estrella del Sur?

3. How do Hornblower and Barbara end up in Puerto Rico?

4. What does Drum-Major Cobb proffer?

5. Why is Governor Hooper outraged?

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