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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 does Hornblower do after lunch?
(a) Talk about politics with Spendlove.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Play cards with Johnson and his men.
(d) Meet with the governor.

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

3. What does Ramsbottom rename his ship?
(a) The Deliverance.
(b) The Avenging Angel.
(c) The Desperate.
(d) The Righteousness.

4. What do the pirates do?
(a) Say they will fight to the death.
(b) Kill Johnson.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Fire on the messenger.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hornblower witness ashore?

3. Who does Hooper consider expendable?

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

5. How does Spendlove escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hornblower quickly leave Curaçao and where does he go?

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

3. Where do Hornblower and Spendlove figure they are?

4. About what do the men converse while dining on the Bride of Aybados?

5. Why is Hornblower summoned by Governor Hooper upon his return from two weeks on the open sea drilling his squadron, and how does Hornblower calm Governor Hooper?

6. Who has kidnapped Hornblower and Spendlove and what are the demands?

7. How do Hornblower and the governor disagree and what does Hornblower do about it for the moment?

8. What happens immediately upon Hornblower's return that is disconcerting to him?

9. Describe Charles Ramsbottom.

10. Describe Ned Johnson.

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