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

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

3. How do Cambronne's men receive Hornblower's news?
(a) They cheer that they don't have to fight.
(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 wail and moan, smash their muskets, and throw them overboard.

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

5. To what is the cone affixed?
(a) A bollard on the Clorinda.
(b) The dock.
(c) An old, sunken ship.
(d) A length of chain.

6. What does Hornblower instruct the men of the Crab to do?
(a) To investigate the nature of the cargo on the Daring so far as is practicable.
(b) To follow the Daring wherever she goes.
(c) To rough up some of the Daring crew to intimidate them.
(d) To assassinate Cambonne.

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

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

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

10. How is Hornblower's composure during the playing out of this drama with the Estrella del Sur?
(a) Commanding.
(b) Diffident.
(c) Euphoric.
(d) Anxious.

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. How does Cambronne express his anguish?
(a) He cuts his hair.
(b) He breaks his sword and casts the remnants into the sea.
(c) He shoots himself in the head.
(d) He rips off his uniform's insignia.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is the sea anchor attached?

2. What does Sharpe observe about Cambronne's route?

3. What ensures Fell's continued employment?

4. What is Hornblower's position as the novel opens?

5. Why is San Juan problematic as far as the capture of Estrella del Sur?

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