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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many decks did the Spanish ship Natividad have?
(a) four
(b) one
(c) two
(d) three

4. Hornblower was ordered to form an alliance with whom in rebellion against Spain?
(a) Don Julian Alvarado
(b) Vice Admiral Don Cristobal de Crespo
(c) Ship Captain Andrade
(d) the Spaniards

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the prosperous period of Hornblower's voyage conclude?

3. Who is Brown?

4. How many guns does Natividad have on board?

5. What was the only land Hornblower had had a glimpse of during the seven-month voyage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Captain Hornblower ordered to do by the British admiralty?

2. Describe the actual battle that ensues after Lydia takes Navtividad by surprise?

3. What appears on the beach the morning after Hornblower's visit to El Supremo's palace?

4. What is the stragegy that El Supremo lays out to Hornblower about conquest?

5. What was weighing heavily on Captain Hornblower's mind after 7 months at sea?

6. What are some of the insults Hornblower disregards in order to accomplish his goals?

7. Describe Captain Hornblower's appearance?

8. Describe the incident which took place in the village near where Lydia was anchored?

9. What does Hornblower see on his way to El Supremo's palace?

10. How did Horatio Hornblower prove himself a good captain during the section "The Prosperous Voyage"?

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