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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who replaced Hankey, the surgeon who died before the novel opened?
(a) Whipple
(b) Laurie
(c) Dauson
(d) Harper

2. What is a chief characteristic of Hornblower?
(a) arrogance
(b) grandiosity
(c) self-effacement
(d) timidity

3. How would you describe the physical appearance of El Supremo?
(a) a large man with greying hair
(b) a small, unimpressive man with lank black hair
(c) a swarthy, tanned wild-looking man
(d) a thin, intellectual-looking man who was balding

4. What did the burgoo the captain ate for breakfast consist of?
(a) a mixture of mashed biscuit crumbs and minced salt beef
(b) rum and scones
(c) black extract of burnt bread
(d) dry bread crusts and milk

5. How many guns does Natividad have on board?
(a) 50
(b) 40
(c) 46
(d) 36

6. How did the British Admiralty want to use the Spanish possessions?
(a) to moor their ships in the harbors
(b) to use them to send British convicts there for imprisonment
(c) to establish British settlements
(d) for British commerce and trade

7. How is Lydia successful in taking Natividad?
(a) by using her cannonades
(b) by superior crew skills
(c) by Hornblower's talent as a captain
(d) by hiding behind an island and taking Natividad by surprise

8. Where does Hornblower conclude Lydia has made perfect landfall?
(a) on the coast of Ecuador
(b) on the Gulf of Sequia
(c) on the coast of Nicaragua
(d) on the Gulf of Fonseca

9. How many guns did the Natividad have on board?
(a) 40
(b) 50
(c) 36
(d) 46

10. What had Hornblower resolved to do on this voyage that he hadn't done previously?
(a) refrain from talkativeness and over-familiarity with the crew
(b) write daily in his ship's log
(c) drill the crew every day
(d) immediately punish any seaman who stepped out of line

11. What does Hernandez mean by "unenlightened" men?
(a) non-religious men
(b) men who have never attended school
(c) men who deny El Supremo's divinity
(d) men who cannot read

12. What did Hornblower feel bred mutiny?
(a) boredom
(b) lack of food
(c) long, idle days
(d) a long period of rough seas

13. How many months at sea were they without touching land?
(a) six
(b) seven
(c) seven and a half
(d) five

14. What did Hornblower deplore about his body?
(a) his large nose
(b) his big feet
(c) his thin legs
(d) his pot belly

15. Why does Hornblower have the Spanish officers from Natividad shackled below on Lydia?
(a) to save them from being executed by El Supremo
(b) to keep them from fighting back
(c) to teach them the superiority of the English
(d) to hold them 'til their flogging

Short Answer Questions

1. How many decks did the Spanish ship Natividad have?

2. Who was the first member of the crew to be publicly flogged?

3. Who comes aboard Lydia in a small craft to speak with Hornblower?

4. The novel takes place during what war?

5. Which of the crew likes to rap the seamen with his rattan cane?

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