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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Hooper furious?
(a) The cost of the search party.
(b) The way Hornblower humiliates Lucy.
(c) The way Hornblower demands a pardon for the pirates.
(d) The way Mr. Hough treats Hornblower.

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

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

4. What does Hornblower announce he must do?
(a) Write England about Hooper's decision.
(b) Return to captivity.
(c) Leave on the tide on the Clorinda.
(d) Organzie a rescue party.

5. What happens while Hornblower is in the garden area during the ball?
(a) He encounters the captain of the Estrella who punches him out.
(b) He is grabbed, gagged and dragged off at knifepoint.
(c) He is surrounded by a group of young women.
(d) He faints from the heat.

6. Who comes into the room when Hooper and Hornblower are having breakfast?
(a) Spendlove.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Mr. Hough.
(d) Captain Fell.

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

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

9. What does Ramsbottom rename his ship?
(a) The Avenging Angel.
(b) The Righteousness.
(c) The Deliverance.
(d) The Desperate.

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

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

12. What do the circulars say that are dispatched to various authorities?
(a) That the Dutch are in violation of international law.
(b) The putative English blockade of Venezuela is nothing more than a ruse de guerre perpetrated by Ramsbottom.
(c) That the Spanish are in violation of international law.
(d) That the English have decided to support Bolívar.

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

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

15. How does Lucy Hough greet Hornblower?
(a) With veiled hostility.
(b) With indifference.
(c) With disdain.
(d) Effusive and confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hornblower swim across a river?

2. Why does Hornblower advise against Hooper's plan as far as the pirates are concerned?

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

4. Who is Mr. Hough?

5. What does Spendlove do as he recovers?

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