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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower learn at Curaçao?
(a) That Bolívar is marching on Puerto Cabello.
(b) That Ramsbottom has secured a new vessel.
(c) That Ramsbottom has left for the United States.
(d) That Bolívar is killed several days earlier.

2. What does Hornblower's ship come about as he is cruising the coast?
(a) The Bride of Abydos.
(b) Abydos Lost.
(c) Abydos Found.
(d) A captured French vessel.

3. What does Lucy do when she next sees Hornblower?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Slaps him for abandoning Spendlove.
(c) Gets hysterical and asks about Spendlove.
(d) Admits her love and devotion for him.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. What bay does Hornblower look out over where he is sitting on a rocky ledge?
(a) Montego.
(b) Jamaicana.
(c) Hispaneola.
(d) Metriola.

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

10. Where does the waterfall end?
(a) It is impossible to tell from where Hornblower is sitting.
(b) In the ocean.
(c) A few feet down into a shallow stream.
(d) In a deep pool and river at the base of the cliff.

11. Who is Mr. Hough?
(a) A wealthy local businessman and Jamaican planter.
(b) Hornblower's quartermaster.
(c) One of the midshipmen on the Clorinda.
(d) The secretary to the English diplomat in Jamaica.

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

13. How does Spendlove escape?
(a) He bribes a guard.
(b) He does not escape.
(c) He jumps into the water and swims to Montego Bay and then rides a horse.
(d) He tells Johnson he will bring back large sums of money.

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

15. 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 faints from the heat.
(c) He is surrounded by a group of young women.
(d) He is grabbed, gagged and dragged off at knifepoint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hornblower think he is?

2. What is the name of Ramsbottom's yacht?

3. To where does the Clorinda return?

4. What is the Helmond?

5. Who does Hornblower believes shares a mutual attraction?

(see the answer keys)

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