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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 after lunch?
(a) Play cards with Johnson and his men.
(b) Talk about politics with Spendlove.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Meet with the governor.

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

3. What does Hooper flatly reject?
(a) A visa for the Clorinda to stay in port longer.
(b) Permission for Lucy to marry Spendlove.
(c) A pardon for the pirates.
(d) A rescue party.

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

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

6. For what activity does Ramsbottom have a penchant?
(a) Hurley.
(b) Yachting in the military style.
(c) Polo.
(d) Rugby.

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

8. Where is Hornblower taken when he returns?
(a) To prison.
(b) To the Clorinda.
(c) Straight to the governor's home.
(d) To Mr. Hough's home.

9. Who engages Hooper and Hornblower in animated conversation?
(a) The Portuguese ambassador.
(b) Ramsbottom.
(c) Dutch and Spanish ministers.
(d) The French ambassador.

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

11. How does Johnson come across to Hornblower?
(a) As a very bright and articulate man.
(b) As a wily fox.
(c) As formal and disapproving.
(d) As an illiterate and ignorant man, scarcely more than a savage idiot.

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

13. What happens after they ship fires a few more times?
(a) The pirates flee overland.
(b) The pirates kill themselves.
(c) The surviving pirates surrender.
(d) The pirates are all dead.

14. What do the pirates do?
(a) Kill Johnson.
(b) Say they will fight to the death.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Fire on the messenger.

15. What does Hornblower learn from his wife, Barbara, about Ramsbottom?
(a) Ramsbottom became engaged to the Duke of York's daughter and broke it off, disgracing her.
(b) That Ramsbottom is being considered to be knighted.
(c) That Ramsbottom is suspected of running slaves.
(d) Ramsbottom has made a big splash in the English social scene and that the man is a millionaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower's ship come about as he is cruising the coast?

2. What is the Helmond?

3. What do the circulars say that are dispatched to various authorities?

4. What does Hornblower find distasteful about the word millionaire?

5. Where does Hornblower tour the brig?

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