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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the governor tell Hornblower as he makes port?
(a) That Madam Cambronne is under the protection of the Americans.
(b) That Napoleon has died.
(c) That Hornblower's wife's boat sank.
(d) The the Daring sinks with all hands lost.

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

4. What does the crew of the Clorinda receive?
(a) A large bounty.
(b) Time in dry dock.
(c) Promotions.
(d) Citations.

5. What does Hornblower order Spendlove to do?
(a) Board the Estrella and ask for asylum.
(b) Board the Estrella as a new hand and plant a bomb belowdecks.
(c) Suggest Hornblower's plan to capture the Estrella to Fell.
(d) Go ashore and wait for Hornblower's signal.

6. How does Hornblower deliver the lie to Cambronne?
(a) With a stony face and icy reserve.
(b) By signal flags.
(c) Using his first mate.
(d) Through an intermediary.

7. Who does Hornblower congratulate on the speed of his ship?
(a) The captain of the Atlas.
(b) The captain of the HMS Java.
(c) The captain of the Estrella del sur.
(d) The captain of the Daring.

8. What is Hornblower's position as the novel opens?
(a) ommander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in Australia.
(b) Commander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies.
(c) ommander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in the United States.
(d) ommander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in New Zealand.

9. How does Hornblower's flagship reach New Orleans?
(a) Under its own sail.
(b) It doesn't; it stays out in deeper waters.
(c) Via a steam tug.
(d) Via a sail tug.

10. What legend does Hornblower recall upon hearing the news from the governor?
(a) The legend of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
(b) The legend of Napoleon's youth.
(c) The legend of Julian of Norwich.
(d) The legend of Napoleon's birth.

11. How might the political situation between England and the United States be described?
(a) Heated.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Delicate.

12. Who is Mr. Cloudesley Sharpe?
(a) The English Diplomat to the United States.
(b) His aide-de-camp.
(c) His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General.
(d) A distant relative of Hornblower who has a merchant fleet docked out of New Orleans.

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

14. What does the Clorinda do?
(a) Closes quickly.
(b) Fires a few shots across the bow of the Estrella.
(c) Starts to close but then also flounders in the heavy seas.
(d) Starts to close but takes a few rounds in the hull causing it to start taking on water.

15. How do the men of the Clorinda construct a large, truncated cone?
(a) With bailing wire and wool.
(b) With sail cloth and sparring.
(c) With sea sponges.
(d) With bailing wire and silk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another topic of discussion between Sharp and Hornblower?

2. What occupies Clorinda's days?

3. What cargo does the Estreela del Sur often carry?

4. What is Hornblower's new flagship?

5. To what is the sea anchor attached?

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