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

3. Where are Hornblower, Hooper and several others invited to dine?
(a) At the Gentleman's club to which Ramsbottom belongs.
(b) At Ramsbottom's rented mansion in Jamaica.
(c) Aboard Ramsbottom's yacht.
(d) At an invitations-only dining restaurant.

4. What does Hornblower climb?
(a) A dangling rope ladder.
(b) The mast of the Clorinda to show new recruits how to do so.
(c) The balustrade inside the ball room to retrieve a cat.
(d) The garden wall.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Hornblower offer?
(a) To sail up the coast and draw the pirates with him.
(b) To allow Hooper the use of the Clorinda.
(c) To take care of the problem with the pirates.
(d) To go back and set explosives in the caves.

11. What does Hornblower spend his time doing during the next two weeks after the dinner with Ramsbottom?
(a) Recovering from malaria.
(b) Recovering from yellow fever.
(c) Working through a pile of paperwork before leaving Jamaica.
(d) Drilling his squadron on the open seas.

12. Where does Ramsbottom say he is going to sail?
(a) Around Cape Horn.
(b) To California around South America.
(c) The Caribbean.
(d) The Cape Fear area.

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

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

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