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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is Governor Hooper outraged?
(a) Because Ramsbottom elopes with Lucy Hough.
(b) Because of English intervention in Venezuela.
(c) Because Lucy Hough told her father that Hornsblower had agreed to marry her.
(d) Because the English conducted manuevers too close to shore and the sound of the gun scare the locals.

4. What does Hornblower climb?
(a) The garden wall.
(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) A dangling rope ladder.

5. How is Ramsbottom's vessel armed?
(a) Two six-pounder cannons and ten twenty-four-pounder carronades.
(b) Three twenty-four-pounder carronades.
(c) The vessel is not armed, but there are light arms issued to the crew.
(d) Just two six-pounder cannons.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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 killed several days earlier.
(d) That Bolívar is marching on Puerto Cabello.

11. How does Hornblower confound the foreign embassies and get them off his ship?
(a) Using his command of rhetoric and dialogue.
(b) By giving them many contradictory statements.
(c) By telling them he will not hesitate to fire upon their vessels.
(d) He is unwilling to speak to the officials when the boat over to the Clorinda.

12. What is the name of Ramsbottom's yacht?
(a) Bride of Frankenstein.
(b) Abydos Lost.
(c) Bride of Abydos.
(d) Abydos Found.

13. Why does Hornblower swim across a river?
(a) He is dumped in the river by the Estrella captain to wake up Hornblower.
(b) He is forced to by his kidnappers.
(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.

14. What bothers Hornblower about Johnson's plan?
(a) The timing having to be so exact.
(b) The governor's response.
(c) Mr. Hough's response.
(d) Abandoning Spendlove.

15. Who calls on Hornblower back on the Clorinda?
(a) Bolívar.
(b) The captain of the Helmond.
(c) Spanish and Dutch officials.
(d) Ramsbottom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Johnson want of Hornblower?

3. What surprises Hornblower about Ramsbottom?

4. Who comes into the room when Hooper and Hornblower are having breakfast?

5. What does Hornblower figure out that Ramsbottom has been doing?

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