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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hornblower compare the cockpit to?
(a) some canto in the Inferno
(b) his sickroom as a child
(c) the inside of a dark cave
(d) an orderly hospital room

2. How is Bush injured during the battle with Natividad?
(a) both his legs are smashed below the knees
(b) one of his arms is blown off
(c) his eye is put out by a flying splinter
(d) his forehead is cut by a falling block

3. What shocked Hornblower about the way the Spaniards treated El Supremo?
(a) that they spat on him
(b) they were going to hang him without his being able to make make peace with God
(c) that they didn't feed him
(d) that they laughed at him and he became their chief source of entertainment

4. What does Hornblower order the surgeon to give to the wounded men?
(a) tea and scones
(b) whiskey and bread
(c) morphine
(d) laudanum and rum

5. Where could Hornblower replenish his supplies on the voyage home to England?
(a) Cape Horn, Chile, the Falkand Islands
(b) Panama, Peru, Nicaragua
(c) St. Helena, Sierra Leone, or Gibraltar
(d) Peru, Argentina, Chile

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

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

8. When the wind dies, how does Lydia approach Natividad to resume battle?
(a) two of her boats tow her
(b) she waits for the wind to rise
(c) she wets her sails
(d) she waits for Natividad to approach her

9. What other communique was handed to Hornblower by the Spaniards who boarded Lydia?
(a) a letter condemning Hornblower for handing Natividad to El Supremo
(b) a dinner invitation to come ashore and dine with Spanish officials
(c) a letter with detailed plans on how to recapture Natividad
(d) a letter from Lady Barbara requesting return passage to England.

10. What is the fate of Natividad?
(a) she escapes into the night
(b) she returns to El Supremo
(c) she goes up in flames, the sea swallowing her up
(d) she is captured by Lydia

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

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

13. What does Lydia sight after a few days ?
(a) Natividad once more
(b) prize ships to capture
(c) a Spanish ship flying a flag of truce
(d) an island

14. What did Lady Barbara say they needed in the cockpit?
(a) warm food for the wounded
(b) fresh air
(c) sterilized surgical instruments
(d) prayer

15. When Galbraith was dying, who did he think Lady Barbara was?
(a) an angel
(b) his mother
(c) his sister
(d) his wife

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the reaction of the Spanish officer who came aboard the Lydia?

3. What operation do Hornblower, Laurie and Lady Barbara have to perform on Williams?

4. How many casualties did Lydia suffer in the battle with Natividad?

5. Who is the captain of Natividad?

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