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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ramsbottom appear physically?
(a) He is lying down and almost dead.
(b) He is unharmed.
(c) He has lost an arm in combat.
(d) He has several minor sword slash wounds but that's all.

2. What does Hornblower witness ashore?
(a) The hanging of Bolívar.
(b) The routing remnants of the Spanish Royalist forces.
(c) The torching of Puerto Cabo.
(d) A massacre of the rebels.

3. What surprises Hornblower about Ramsbottom?
(a) He is eminently likable and affable.
(b) He is a giant of a man.
(c) He is quite diminuative in stature.
(d) He dresses like a peasant.

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

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

6. Who is Ned Johnson?
(a) The leader of a band of ruffians.
(b) Mr. Hough's butler.
(c) A former member of a pirate band.
(d) A liberated slaves off a slave ship.

7. To where does the Clorinda return?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Curaçao
(c) Cuernavaca.
(d) Puerto Cabello.

8. How is Ramsbottom's vessel crewed?
(a) A number of navy deserters from various countries.
(b) Hessian mercenaries.
(c) Former pirates who forswear their former ways.
(d) Mostly older navy veterans.

9. What is the Helmond?
(a) A German vessel captured by Ramsbottom.
(b) A German vessel aiding Ramsbottom in a blockade.
(c) A Dutch vessel captured by Ramsbottom.
(d) A Dutch vessel aiding Ramsbottom in a blockade.

10. Why does Hornblower swim across a river?
(a) He is forced to by his kidnappers.
(b) He is dumped in the river by the Estrella captain to wake up Hornblower.
(c) He does so on a dare by some of the young women.
(d) He is dumped in there to help him cool down after fainting.

11. What is the Helmund transporting?
(a) Reinforcements.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Gold bullion.
(d) Livestock.

12. What does Spendlove do as he recovers?
(a) Talks to Mr. Hough about Lucy.
(b) Becomes increasingly protective of Hornblower.
(c) Talks to Lucy about England.
(d) Decides to make a run for it.

13. What is the ending scene in Chapter 4?
(a) Hornblower receives another letter from his wife Barbara.
(b) Hornblower fleeing to open seas followed by a Spanish frigate.
(c) The Clorinda offering aid to Ramsbottom.
(d) Hornblower going ashore once more to see if he can find Ramsbottom.

14. What does Hornblower figure out that Ramsbottom has been doing?
(a) Running illegal cargo to South America.
(b) Posturing as a British commissioned ship-of-war acting under Hornblower's orders.
(c) Running slaves out of the West Indies.
(d) Waiting to leave the area under the protection of Hornblower's squadron.

15. What does Hornblower's ship come about as he is cruising the coast?
(a) The Bride of Abydos.
(b) A captured French vessel.
(c) Abydos Lost.
(d) Abydos Found.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Johnson want of Hornblower?

2. What is the name of Ramsbottom's yacht?

3. Where is Hornblower taken when he returns?

4. What does Hooper flatly reject?

5. What is the meal like aboard Ramsbottom's vessel?

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