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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Lydia and Natividad steer a collision course, what does Hornblower do unexpectedly?
(a) calls his officers together to confer on what's best to do
(b) veers to leeward, yielding the weather gauge
(c) raises a white flag of truce
(d) retreats to a safe distance away to plan his next move

2. Who was Gerard?
(a) the cook
(b) the 3rd Lieutenant
(c) the half wit coxswain
(d) the handsome womanizing gunner

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

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

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

6. Who is the captain of Natividad?
(a) El Supremo
(b) Cortez
(c) Crespo
(d) Manuel Hernandez

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

8. How many casualties did Lydia suffer in the battle with Natividad?
(a) approximately one half of her crew
(b) 45 seamen
(c) approximately one-quarter of her crew
(d) more than one third of her crew

9. What are manned continuously after Lydia is damaged in battle with Natividad?
(a) the carronnades
(b) the watches over the wounded
(c) the chain pumps
(d) the night watches

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

11. What could Lydia not hope to survive in her present condition?
(a) another seven months at sea
(b) an attack by pirates
(c) another sea battle
(d) the storms of Cape Horn

12. What had Hornblower remembered to do for his crew before sending them into action?
(a) remind them they had had seven months of heavy drilling
(b) gave them a talk on loyalty to the Crown
(c) send them to breakfast to have full bellies going into action
(d) thank them for their loyal service

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

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

15. What did Hornblower tell the Spanish officer who boarded Lydia when Lydia was headed for Panama?
(a) that he was headed for the Pearl Islands
(b) that he was returning to England
(c) that he had lost one-third of his crew
(d) that he had sunk Natividad

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hornblower compare the cockpit to?

2. Where does Lady Barbara take up residence aboard Lydia, displacing the person who resided there before?

3. What does Hornblower learn from the communiques handed him by the men who come aboard?

4. Why was time of utmost importance in repairing Lydia to sail home?

5. Who died after having both legs smashed below the knees?

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