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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Lady Barbara.
(a) She is short, dark-haired , plump and fair with pink cheeks
(b) She is a red-head with a fiery temper
(c) She is a delicate blond, not wanting to get her hands dirty or soil her clothes
(d) She is 27, tanned and from an influential English family

2. What habit had Lady Barbara acquired in her forced loneliness?
(a) writing long letters to England , though they couldn't be sent
(b) firting with the crew
(c) talking with herself
(d) confiding in Hebe, her maid

3. What does Hornblower announce to the Spanish politicians after he admits fomenting revolution and delivering Natividad to El Supremo?
(a) that he will sail immediately for England
(b) he will call on the Spanish governor at Panama and seek to destroy or capture Natividad
(c) admits he was foolish in siding with such a madman as El Supremo under any circumstance
(d) that he continue fomenting revolution against Spain

4. Bush looked forward to what promotion because of his admirable actions on board Lydia?
(a) promotion to captain
(b) promotion to Commander or the first lieutenant
(c) no promotion
(d) promotion to admiral

5. What was the grim nemesis awaiting men with open wounds in those pre-antiseptic days?
(a) gangrene
(b) tentanus
(c) amputation
(d) typhoid fever

6. What was irksome to the Spanish officer after he had denied Lydia's dropping anchor on the Spanish Main?
(a) Hornblower's putting down Spanish America
(b) Hornblower's downcast countenance
(c) Hornblower's nasty words
(d) Hornblower's friendly, cavalier dismissal

7. What did Hornblower order done when the crew became depressed and discouraged?
(a) ordered them to take a meal
(b) ordered the red-haired Sullivan to play the fiddle and the men to dance
(c) ordered them to pray
(d) ordered them to sing sea shanties

8. Where does Lady Barbara take up residence aboard Lydia, displacing the person who resided there before?
(a) In 1st Lieutenant Bush's cabin
(b) in Polwheal, Hornblower's steward's cabin
(c) in surgeon, Laurie's cabin
(d) in Captain Hornblower's cabin

9. What features of the landscape do they always see when sailing along the coast?
(a) bananna trees
(b) pink sand beaches
(c) volcanic peaks
(d) snow-peaked mountains

10. What difficulty does Hornblower encounter after his visit with the Viceroy and his return to Lydia?
(a) The anchor is heavily fouled.
(b) Lady Barbara hung her underwear on deck to dry
(c) His men became drunk during his absence
(d) He finds out Hebe, Lady Barbara's maid, is a prostitute

11. Why was it so hot in the little bay where Lydia dropped anchor?
(a) it was the bay of a tropical island
(b) it was the summer season
(c) it wasn't that hot , the crew was just used to being at sea
(d) the lofty mountains all about cut off the wind

12. What operation do Hornblower, Laurie and Lady Barbara have to perform on Williams?
(a) amputate his leg
(b) remove a splinter from his chest
(c) remove a splinter from his arm
(d) amputate his arm

13. What is secured on the deck of Lydia after the sea battle with Natividad?
(a) the mizzenmast
(b) the ship's wheel
(c) a loose cannon
(d) the foremast

14. Who died after having both legs smashed below the knees?
(a) Gerard
(b) Howell
(c) Sullivan
(d) Galbraith

15. What was the chief fear Hornblower had going into battle?
(a) never being able to return home
(b) mutilation
(c) dying
(d) losing the respect of his officers

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hornblower take Lydia to be repaired?

2. How many dead British seamen are collected and interred to the sea?

3. Who was Gerard?

4. What are manned continuously after Lydia is damaged in battle with Natividad?

5. What does Captain Hornblower do on the same day Lady Barbara invited him to breakfast?

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