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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 learn at Curaçao?
(a) That Ramsbottom has secured a new vessel.
(b) That Bolívar is marching on Puerto Cabello.
(c) That Ramsbottom has left for the United States.
(d) That Bolívar is killed several days earlier.

2. Where does Hornblower tie himself and Barbara?
(a) To the bridge.
(b) To the mainmast.
(c) To the forecastle.
(d) To the anchor housing.

3. What happens a few days out to sea on the vessel that Hornblower and his wife are on?
(a) The vessel becalms in a totally quiet sea.
(b) The vessel encounters a hurricane.
(c) The vessel is overrun by rats.
(d) The vessel is accosted by pirates.

4. What happens after they ship fires a few more times?
(a) The pirates flee overland.
(b) The pirates kill themselves.
(c) The surviving pirates surrender.
(d) The pirates are all dead.

5. How does Johnson come across to Hornblower?
(a) As formal and disapproving.
(b) As a very bright and articulate man.
(c) As an illiterate and ignorant man, scarcely more than a savage idiot.
(d) As a wily fox.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara request of her husband?

2. What occupies Clorinda's days?

3. In what kind of shape is Hornblower's squadron?

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

5. Where is Hornblower taken when he returns?

(see the answer key)

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