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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 do Hornblower and Ramsbottom spend several evenings doing?
(a) Playing whist.
(b) Playing chess.
(c) Playing bridge.
(d) Playing darts.

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

3. What does Hooper order?
(a) Breakfast for Spendlove.
(b) A military strike on the pirate's redoubt.
(c) Increased patrols along the coastal areas.
(d) A medal for Spendlove.

4. How does Johnson come across to Hornblower?
(a) As a very bright and articulate man.
(b) As formal and disapproving.
(c) As a wily fox.
(d) As an illiterate and ignorant man, scarcely more than a savage idiot.

5. How is Ramsbottom's vessel armed?
(a) Just two six-pounder cannons.
(b) Two six-pounder cannons and ten twenty-four-pounder carronades.
(c) The vessel is not armed, but there are light arms issued to the crew.
(d) Three twenty-four-pounder carronades.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower learn at Curaçao?

2. What does Hornblower discover about the vessel he boards after talking with the Spanish sailors about Helmond's artillery?

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

4. Why is Governor Hooper outraged?

5. Who comes into the room when Hooper and Hornblower are having breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Hornblower do to keep the various authorities in the area from being upset at Hornblower and the English?

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

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

5. Describe Charles Ramsbottom.

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

7. Where do Hornblower and Spendlove figure they are?

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

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

10. Describe Hornblower's capture and journey to the cliffs.

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