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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Cambronne sets sail, what does he employ?
(a) A group of slaves.
(b) An escort of two American frigates.
(c) A company of mercenaries.
(d) Both steam tugs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. What will break the restraint on the sea anchor?
(a) The paper will dissolve with some time.
(b) Water pressure and flow.
(c) A built-in cutting edge.
(d) The Clorinda will fire a cannon.

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

14. What does Hornblower connive to do?
(a) Have the slave ship's captain casually disregard some of the finer points of law to Hornblower's eventual favor.
(b) Get the governor to turn his head from Hornblower's activities.
(c) Get the captain of the Estrella drunk.
(d) Get the governor drunk.

15. What occupies Clorinda's days?
(a) Sailing from port to port to supervise the dry dock activities of the West Indies fleet..
(b) Ferrying English settlers among the islands of the West Indies.
(c) Demonstrating seamanship to other English vessels.
(d) Cruising in the West Indies in search of pirates or slave runners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Hornblower suspicious?

2. What ensures Fell's continued employment?

3. Who is the Estrella del Sur?

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

5. What does Hornblower tell Cambronne?

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