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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower do on board the Helmond?
(a) He frees the Dutch crew and turns the ship over to its captain.
(b) Fires the ship.
(c) Assigns a prize crew.
(d) Keeps the crew tied up and waits for Ramsbottom.

2. What does Hornblower discover about the vessel he boards after talking with the Spanish sailors about Helmond's artillery?
(a) The vessel is manned by insurrgents.
(b) The vessel is full of dead men.
(c) The vessel is full of slaves.
(d) The vessel is abandoned.

3. What happens to the Helmond's artillery guns?
(a) They were sunk so the rebels could not use them.
(b) They are offloaded several days earlier.
(c) They are given to the Spanish forces.
(d) They are still on the Helmond.

4. How is Ramsbottom behaving emotionally when Hornblower encounters him?
(a) Joyful but nearly hysterical.
(b) Uncommunicative.
(c) Despondent.
(d) Grieving the death of Bolívar.

5. Who does Hooper consider expendable?
(a) Spendlove.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Johnson.

6. What does Johnson want of Hornblower?
(a) A letter to the governor requesting pardon for the survivinig pirates.
(b) To tell Hornblower Lucy would like to meet him in the library.
(c) Release of Johnson's wife who is being held as a slave.
(d) Money.

7. What do Hornblower and Ramsbottom spend several evenings doing?
(a) Playing whist.
(b) Playing darts.
(c) Playing chess.
(d) Playing bridge.

8. Who is Charles Ramsbottom?
(a) A very wealthy industrialist who has recently entered society.
(b) Hornblower's third cousin.
(c) Lucy Hough's latest beau.
(d) A noble turned pirate.

9. What does Hornblower find distasteful about the word millionaire?
(a) That so much importance is attached to one's financial status as to determine a person's worth for marriage.
(b) The word being applied to an individual.
(c) He has never heard the word before, so he has no reaction to it.
(d) The fact that some men have so much money.

10. What does Hornblower learn at Curaçao?
(a) That Ramsbottom has left for the United States.
(b) That Ramsbottom has secured a new vessel.
(c) That Bolívar is marching on Puerto Cabello.
(d) That Bolívar is killed several days earlier.

11. Why won't any of the men take the letter to the governor?
(a) They think Johnson will tell the governor about the meeting between Lucy and Hornblower.
(b) They think Johnson will double cross them.
(c) Fear of imprisonment.
(d) Too hard a walk.

12. Who arrives after Hornblower?
(a) Captain Fell.
(b) Spendlove.
(c) Mr. Hough.
(d) No one.

13. What do they have to do when the boat grounds?
(a) Dam the river to make the water rise.
(b) Set up a line of defense there.
(c) Carry the mortar on foot.
(d) Carry the mortar around the shallows.

14. Where does Hornblower write a brief letter?
(a) On a scrap of paper.
(b) On his linen shirt.
(c) On the bark of a tree.
(d) On the flyleaf of a book.

15. Who is Johnson sending to the governor?
(a) Captain Fell.
(b) Hornblower.
(c) Lucy Hough.
(d) Spendlove.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hornblower confound the foreign embassies and get them off his ship?

2. To where does the Clorinda return?

3. How does Ramsbottom appear physically?

4. For what activity does Ramsbottom have a penchant?

5. Where does the waterfall end?

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