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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cambronne bewail?
(a) The loss of his cause in Barbardos.
(b) Napoleon's death.
(c) That his wife is captive.
(d) That Hornblower has figured out Cambronne's plan.

2. What does Sharpe observe about Cambronne's route?
(a) Cambronne must call at Corpus Christi to embark his men.
(b) Cambronne will probably go around the Florida Keys.
(c) Cambronne will probably call at Cuba for more slaves.
(d) Cambronne must ride out the hurricane coming up the Gulf before he can get away completely.

3. What cargo does the Estreela del Sur often carry?
(a) Rum and cigars from Cuba.
(b) Arms and ammo for the war in Brazil.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Tobacco from the Southern states.

4. Of what does the Governor remind Hornblower?
(a) The rules of engagement.
(b) Of the fact that he met Hornblower's wife while she was still married to Admiral Leighton.
(c) The last time Hornblower was in San Juan.
(d) Of the time the French broke the rules of engagement and what happened.

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

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

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

8. 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) 1000 pounds.
(d) A citation and reassignment out of the tropics.

9. About how many vessels does Hornblower command?
(a) 55.
(b) 17.
(c) 68.
(d) 3.

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

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

12. Who follows the Estrella out of port?
(a) A French frigate.
(b) The Java and the Sutherland.
(c) The Clorinda.
(d) The San Juan shore patrol.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hornblower in New Orleans?

2. Of what does Cambronne's cargo consist?

3. What happens to the pintle?

4. To what is the sea anchor attached?

5. What does Hornblower connive to do?

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