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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as the sea anchor deploys?
(a) The ship keels to port and rolls far enough to break the main mast.
(b) Its massive towing force jerks on the rudder pintle.
(c) The ship's bow dips and cracks at the force of hitting the waves.
(d) The ship keels to starboard and takes on water.

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

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

4. What happens after Spendlove follows Hornblower's orders?
(a) The warehouses along the docks accidentally catch fire.
(b) The Estrella refuses to allow Spendlove to board.
(c) Fell relates the plan back to Hornblower.
(d) The bomb Spendlove plants fails to detonate.

5. Upon whom does Hornblower decide to keep a close watch?
(a) The French diplomat visiting New Orleans.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Cambronne.

6. Where does Cambronne say the Daring will now sail?
(a) He's not sure.
(b) To Bolivia.
(c) To New York to pick up a new cargo.
(d) To France.

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

8. What happens to the pintle?
(a) It slews the ship sideways.
(b) It breaks in two.
(c) It hold fast.
(d) It is jerked out of the hull.

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

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

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

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

13. What type of freight will the Daring be taking on shortly?
(a) Comodities.
(b) Wine.
(c) Guns.
(d) Bonded.

14. What is another topic of discussion between Sharp and Hornblower?
(a) Problematic letters of marque.
(b) Residing in the United States.
(c) The pending promotion of Hornblower to Admiral.
(d) Problematic retrofitting of steam vessels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hornblower's flagship reach New Orleans?

2. What causes Hornblower to misread Cambronne's pretext for departing the gala?

3. Who hires the Daring?

4. What occupies Clorinda's days?

5. What ensures Fell's continued employment?

(see the answer keys)

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