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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. Who hires the Daring?
(a) Hornblower.
(b) Cambronne.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Sharpe.

2. What does the crew of the Clorinda receive?
(a) Citations.
(b) A large bounty.
(c) Promotions.
(d) Time in dry dock.

3. 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 assassinate Cambonne.
(d) To rough up some of the Daring crew to intimidate them.

4. What is one thing Sharp and Hornblower are discussing?
(a) The Napoleonic Wars.
(b) The slave trade.
(c) The Boer Wars.
(d) The Louisiana Purchase.

5. Who is the Estrella del Sur?
(a) A large schooner capable of exceptional speed.
(b) A retrofitted Spanish vessel that had been Napoleon's flagship.
(c) The flagship of the Spanish fleet in the West Indies.
(d) A retrofitted English vessel captured during the Napoleonic Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower tell Cambronne?

2. What is the ideal situation once the Estrella reaches high seas?

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

4. Where does Hornblower direct the Crab to sail?

5. What is another topic of discussion between Sharp and Hornblower?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. Describe the capture of the Estrella del Sur by the Clorinda.

6. After a period of introspection, what does Hornblower conclude Cambronne's plans are?

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

8. If Cambronne is undertaking the mission which Hornblower believes he is doing, why is Hornblower concerned and what does Hornblower determine to do?

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

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

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