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

2. What is Hornblower's position as the novel opens?
(a) ommander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in Australia.
(b) ommander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in New Zealand.
(c) ommander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in the United States.
(d) Commander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies.

3. 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.

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

5. Where does Hornblower attend a gala?
(a) At General Layfayette's estate.
(b) At the New Orleans officer club.
(c) At Sharpe's estate.
(d) At Cambronne's estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is the sea anchor attached?

2. What type of freight will the Daring be taking on shortly?

3. What does Cambronne bewail?

4. Who is Captain Thomas Fell?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Fell's decision regarding the Estrella del Sur and the result of the decision.

2. Describe the vessel Hornblower's flagship spies.

3. How does Cambronne verify Hornblower's information and what is the reaction of Cambronne and the ship's crew?

4. How do Fell and Hornblower differ on whether the Estrella's capture is still possible and why would that be so devastating to Fell? What does Hornblower decide to do?

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

6. Who does Rear Admiral Hornblower talk with and what are the main topics of discussion?

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

8. How is Hornblower not up to his usual powers of observation and deduction?

9. Where has Cambronne actually gone and what prevents Hornblower from following him immediately?

10. What has been done while Hornblower was verbally sparring with the captain of the Estrella del Sur?

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