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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. What is the name of the present flagship?
(a) The Crab.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Leopard.
(d) The Java.

5. Why is Hornblower in despair?
(a) For not being able to persuade Cambronne to change his course.
(b) For giving his word as an officer and gentleman when it was a lie.
(c) For having to threaten the life of a woman.
(d) For trusting Sharpe as to Cambronne's intentions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What legend does Hornblower recall upon hearing the news from the governor?

2. What does the governor tell Hornblower as he makes port?

3. Who hires the Daring?

4. Where does Cambronne say the Daring will now sail?

5. What does Fell figure he can earn by capturing Estrella del Sur?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the vessel Hornblower's flagship spies.

2. What vessel has Hornblower made his flagship in this chapter and what is the vessel doing?

3. What does Sharpe tell Hornblower about who has hired the Daring.

4. What is the ostensible reason Cambronne has hired the Daring, and does Hornblower believe the explanation?

5. How does Hornblower discreetly inform Fell of a possible plan to capture the Estrella del Sur and what is Fell's reaction?

6. What would enable Fell to profit by the capture of the Estrella del Sur and by how much would he profit?

7. What is the Daring?

8. What is the political situation at San Juan and how does this prevent any further action against the Estrella del Sur?

9. What does Hornblower tell Cambronne when Hornblower boards the Daring?

10. Who commands the Clorinda and what is his financial situation?

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