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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. Why does Hornblower advise against Hooper's plan as far as the pirates are concerned?
(a) It would be ineffectual.
(b) It would make Hooper look weak if he loses the battle.
(c) Too costly.
(d) It could allow the pirates to escape.

3. What does Hooper flatly reject?
(a) Permission for Lucy to marry Spendlove.
(b) A rescue party.
(c) A pardon for the pirates.
(d) A visa for the Clorinda to stay in port longer.

4. How is Ramsbottom's vessel crewed?
(a) Mostly older navy veterans.
(b) A number of navy deserters from various countries.
(c) Hessian mercenaries.
(d) Former pirates who forswear their former ways.

5. What does Hornblower learn from his wife, Barbara, about Ramsbottom?
(a) That Ramsbottom is suspected of running slaves.
(b) That Ramsbottom is being considered to be knighted.
(c) Ramsbottom has made a big splash in the English social scene and that the man is a millionaire.
(d) Ramsbottom became engaged to the Duke of York's daughter and broke it off, disgracing her.

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

7. What does Spendlove do as he recovers?
(a) Talks to Mr. Hough about Lucy.
(b) Becomes increasingly protective of Hornblower.
(c) Decides to make a run for it.
(d) Talks to Lucy about England.

8. Where does Hornblower decide to sail?
(a) To Venezuela.
(b) To England.
(c) To Peru.
(d) Back to his home base.

9. 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 the Gentleman's club to which Ramsbottom belongs.
(d) At an invitations-only dining restaurant.

10. 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 garden wall.
(d) The balustrade inside the ball room to retrieve a cat.

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

12. What does Hornblower find distasteful about the word millionaire?
(a) That so much importance is attached to one's financial status as to determine a person's worth for marriage.
(b) He has never heard the word before, so he has no reaction to it.
(c) The word being applied to an individual.
(d) The fact that some men have so much money.

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

14. What is the ending scene in Chapter 4?
(a) The Clorinda offering aid to Ramsbottom.
(b) Hornblower receives another letter from his wife Barbara.
(c) Hornblower going ashore once more to see if he can find Ramsbottom.
(d) Hornblower fleeing to open seas followed by a Spanish frigate.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bay does Hornblower look out over where he is sitting on a rocky ledge?

2. For what activity does Ramsbottom have a penchant?

3. What do the pirates do?

4. Why won't any of the men take the letter to the governor?

5. Who is Simón Bolívar?

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