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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 Hernandez mean by "unenlightened" men?
(a) men who cannot read
(b) non-religious men
(c) men who deny El Supremo's divinity
(d) men who have never attended school

2. What were the huts that Hornblower saw on his way to the palace made of?
(a) local volcanic stone
(b) wood
(c) palmettos
(d) mud

3. What had long been a dream of the British government?
(a) having better ships and seamen than any other country
(b) establishing colonies in South America
(c) starting a rebellion in the Spanish American colonies
(d) becoming the most powerful country in the world

4. How many months at sea were they without touching land?
(a) six
(b) five
(c) seven and a half
(d) seven

5. How long after sighting the Horn had Hornblower brought Lydia to her destination?
(a) seven months
(b) six weeks
(c) seven weeks
(d) 3 months

Short Answer Questions

1. How do El Supremos' officers quell the crew after they take over Natividad?

2. What card game did Hornblower like to play?

3. How did the British Admiralty want to use the Spanish possessions?

4. Who is Gerard?

5. What request did Hornblower make of El Supremo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What appears on the beach the morning after Hornblower's visit to El Supremo's palace?

2. What was weighing heavily on Captain Hornblower's mind after 7 months at sea?

3. Describe the actual battle that ensues after Lydia takes Navtividad by surprise?

4. Which supplies was Lydia out of or low on after seven months at sea?

5. What is the strategy Hornblower devises to capture Natividad, though it is larger and has more guns than the Lydia has?

6. Why do you think it was a wise decision of Hornblower not to get familiar with his lieutenants and to remain aloof and close-mouthed?

7. What does Hornblower see on his way to El Supremo's palace?

8. What does Hornblower do with the captured officers and crew of Natividad?

9. Hornblower is not close to any of the crew under him and neither is El Supremo close to his men. What are some of the differences between Hornblower's relationship with his men and the behavior El Supremo exhbits toward his men?

10. What is the stragegy that El Supremo lays out to Hornblower about conquest?

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