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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Hornblower to misread Cambronne's pretext for departing the gala?
(a) Sharpe assures Hornblower that Cambronne is being genuine.
(b) Too much wine.
(c) Hornblower thinks Cambronne is a gentleman and as such would not lie.
(d) He is laywaid by a beautiful woman.

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

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

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

5. What concerns Hornblower about Cambronne's possible destination and purpose?
(a) It could embroil Europe in a round of costly bloodshed.
(b) It could cause Spain to declare war on France and England could be dragged into such action.
(c) It could liberate Barbados from English rule.
(d) It could upset the balance of power in the West Indies.

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

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

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

9. What is Hornblower's new flagship?
(a) Clorinda.
(b) Java.
(c) Leopard.
(d) Atlas.

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. Of what is Hornblower suspicious?
(a) The motives of Johnson.
(b) The mission of the Daring.
(c) The ability of the United States to regulate their merchants.
(d) Sharpe's good intentions.

15. What does Sharpe observe about Cambronne's route?
(a) Cambronne will probably go around the Florida Keys.
(b) Cambronne must call at Corpus Christi to embark his men.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower hope?

2. What is one thing Sharp and Hornblower are discussing?

3. When Cambronne sets sail, what does he employ?

4. What does Cambronne demand as verification?

5. What does Hornblower conclude Cambronne intends to do?

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