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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do El Supremos' officers quell the crew after they take over Natividad?
(a) threaten that any crewman who disobeys must walk the plank
(b) tie a disobedient crewsman to the mast
(c) withhold food for three days
(d) execute a hesitant boy

3. The novel takes place during what war?
(a) the War of 1812
(b) the Seven Years' War
(c) the French Revolution
(d) Napoleonic War between France and England

4. What does Hornblower do when the Natividad is first sighted?
(a) calls a beat to quarters
(b) fires the cannonades at Natividad
(c) hoists the sails
(d) unconcernedly asks some officers to dinner and plays cards

5. What made the whole crew of Lydia spring into action on approaching Natividad?
(a) fear
(b) Hornblower's beat to quarters
(c) Hornblower blowing his silver whistle
(d) a man on the foremast calling the order

6. What did the flag that Natividad now flew look like?
(a) blue with a yellow star in the middle
(b) yellow with a blue star in the middle
(c) green with a yellow star in the middle
(d) black with a red star in the middle

7. Until Lydia had made harbor what was the favorite dish in the midshipman's berth?
(a) fish
(b) canned goods
(c) stale bread
(d) rats

8. How far above the deck is the foremast gallant top?
(a) 40' above the deck.
(b) 125' above the deck.
(c) 140' above the deck.
(d) 130' above the deck.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What had long been a dream of the British government?
(a) becoming the most powerful country in the world
(b) establishing colonies in South America
(c) having better ships and seamen than any other country
(d) starting a rebellion in the Spanish American colonies

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hornblower have the Spanish officers from Natividad shackled below on Lydia?

2. What had Hornblower been ordered to do with Lydia?

3. Hornblower is ordered to go to the palace of whom?

4. What card game did Hornblower like to play?

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

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