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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To where does the Clorinda return?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Puerto Cabello.
(c) Curaçao
(d) Cuernavaca.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Johnson come across to Hornblower?

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

3. Who does Hornblower believes shares a mutual attraction?

4. What does Hornblower offer?

5. How is Ramsbottom behaving emotionally when Hornblower encounters him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Charles Ramsbottom.

2. What does Hornblower do once he reaches Puerto Cabello?

3. What do the pirates decide to do about the delivery of the letter and how does Hornblower react?

4. Describe the strike on the pirate's redoubt and the outcome.

5. Describe the dinner aboard the Bride of Abydos and the new "invention" that may revolutionize shipboard fare.

6. Describe Ned Johnson.

7. How does Hornblower manage to avoid a confrontation with Spanish and Dutch officials and where does Hornblower go from Puerto Cabello?

8. Who appears at breakfast and how does he get there?

9. Describe the area where Hornblower and Spendlove are being held.

10. What are the implications of the capture of the Helmond?

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