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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why won't any of the men take the letter to the governor?
(a) Too hard a walk.
(b) They think Johnson will double cross them.
(c) They think Johnson will tell the governor about the meeting between Lucy and Hornblower.
(d) Fear of imprisonment.

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

6. What does Johnson want of Hornblower?
(a) Money.
(b) To tell Hornblower Lucy would like to meet him in the library.
(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. Where does Hornblower write a brief letter?
(a) On a scrap of paper.
(b) On the flyleaf of a book.
(c) On his linen shirt.
(d) On the bark of a tree.

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

9. 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.

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

11. What is the meal like aboard Ramsbottom's vessel?
(a) Average but good tasting.
(b) Excellent and complicated.
(c) Typical seagoing fare.
(d) Complicated and barely edible.

12. Where does Hornblower tour the brig?
(a) Aboard the Abydos Found.
(b) Aboard the Bride of Abydos.
(c) Aboard the Abydos Lost.
(d) At the government house.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Hornblower have the Clorinda's mortar mounted?

3. What does Hornblower do after lunch?

4. About what is Hooper furious?

5. What bothers Hornblower about Johnson's plan?

(see the answer keys)

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