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

3. What has been executed aboard the Clorinda while Hornblower is at the government house?
(a) The Estrella has burned.
(b) The Clorinda has grounded itself.
(c) Hornblower's plan has been executed.
(d) The Estrella has left port.

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

5. How do Hornblower and Fell differ in their opinion of the situation?
(a) Both Hornblower and Fell believe the Estrella is out of reach.
(b) Both Hornblower and Fell believe the Estrella can be taken without an ensuing problem.
(c) Hornblower believes the Estrella is out of reach but Fell believes otherwise.
(d) Fell believes the Estrella is out of reach but Hornblower believes otherwise.

6. What keeps the sea anchor bundled up until Estrella reaches top speed?
(a) Paper wrapping.
(b) Two cotter pins.
(c) A length of spun yarn.
(d) A length of wire.

7. What does Fell figure he can earn by capturing Estrella del Sur?
(a) Nothing since it's not a slave ship.
(b) 1000 pounds.
(c) A citation and reassignment out of the tropics.
(d) 100 pounds.

8. Why is Hornblower in New Orleans?
(a) To talk to a French general.
(b) To pay an official courtesy visit.
(c) To meet up with his wife.
(d) To oversee the construction of a new frigate.

9. Where does Hornblower direct the Crab to sail?
(a) The Tobago Channel.
(b) Cape Horn.
(c) St. Helena.
(d) The Straits of Magellan.

10. Of what does Cambronne's cargo consist?
(a) Rum and tobacco.
(b) Slaves and rum.
(c) Cannons and pistols.
(d) Muskets, French dress uniforms and military headwear peculiar to the time of Napoleon's greatest influence.

11. How do Cambronne's men receive Hornblower's news?
(a) They wail and moan, smash their muskets, and throw them overboard.
(b) They want to know if they will still get paid.
(c) They shrug since they never like the fact when Cambronne's wife insists on traveling with them.
(d) They cheer that they don't have to fight.

12. What is the ideal situation once the Estrella reaches high seas?
(a) The waves will be high enough to make the sea anchor work optimally.
(b) The Estrella will sink.
(c) The Estrella will becalm.
(d) The sea anchor will slow down and the Clorinda will be able to close and board.

13. What do ships-of-war gain from capturing slave ships?
(a) A citation.
(b) Head money.
(c) A rotation back to England.
(d) Choice assignments next time.

14. Who realizes immediately that the chase for Estrella del Sur is futile?
(a) Hornblower and Spendlove.
(b) Fell.
(c) No one.
(d) Only Hornblower of everyone on board.

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