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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 intend to do?
(a) Intercept the Daring and have Cambronne silenced.
(b) Send a missive to St. Helena and tell them to be on double guard.
(c) Ask for reassignment.
(d) Tender his resignation.

2. How is Ramsbottom behaving emotionally when Hornblower encounters him?
(a) Uncommunicative.
(b) Grieving the death of Bolívar.
(c) Despondent.
(d) Joyful but nearly hysterical.

3. How does Spendlove escape?
(a) He tells Johnson he will bring back large sums of money.
(b) He does not escape.
(c) He bribes a guard.
(d) He jumps into the water and swims to Montego Bay and then rides a horse.

4. What is the name of the present flagship?
(a) The Crab.
(b) The Java.
(c) The Constitution.
(d) The Leopard.

5. What is the best Hornblower can do about the Hudnutt case?
(a) Suggest an appeal.
(b) Request the incoming admiral to dismiss them as an act of clemency.
(c) Suggest to Drum-Major Cobb he figure out a compromise.
(d) Stay out of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won't any of the men take the letter to the governor?

2. Who helped Hudnutt escape?

3. What does Hornblower figure out that Ramsbottom has been doing?

4. What would happen should Clorinda capture Estrella del Sur close to San Juan?

5. What happens as the sea anchor deploys?

(see the answer key)

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