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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. A how-many-gun salute does El Supremo demand he have on boarding Lydia?
(a) 21
(b) 19
(c) 23
(d) 20
2. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?
(a) 19
(b) 20
(c) 17
(d) 25
3. What request did Hornblower make of El Supremo?
(a) to come to dinner aboard the Lydia
(b) to sail with him to Panama
(c) to untie the "unenlightened" men he had staked in the sun
(d) to re-stock Lydia with food, water and other necessities
4. Where does Hornblower conclude Lydia has made perfect landfall?
(a) on the Gulf of Sequia
(b) on the coast of Ecuador
(c) on the Gulf of Fonseca
(d) on the coast of Nicaragua
5. Hornblower is ordered to go to the palace of whom?
(a) El Supremo
(b) Jesus de Natividad
(c) Hernando Alvarez
(d) Manuel Hernandez
Short Answer Questions
1. What made the whole crew of Lydia spring into action on approaching Natividad?
2. What is a chief characteristic of Hornblower?
3. What does Hernandez mean by "unenlightened" men?
4. What had Hornblower been ordered to do with Lydia?
5. How many guns does the H.M.S. Lydia have on board?
Short Essay Questions
1. Hornblower is not close to any of the crew under him and neither is El Supremo close to his men. What are some of the differences between Hornblower's relationship with his men and the behavior El Supremo exhbits toward his men?
2. What does Hornblower do with the captured officers and crew of Natividad?
3. Why do you think it was a wise decision of Hornblower not to get familiar with his lieutenants and to remain aloof and close-mouthed?
4. What was Captain Hornblower ordered to do by the British admiralty?
5. What appears on the beach the morning after Hornblower's visit to El Supremo's palace?
6. What was weighing heavily on Captain Hornblower's mind after 7 months at sea?
7. What does Hornblower see on his way to El Supremo's palace?
8. Name three of the officers of H.M.S. Lydia and their ranks.
9. What does Hornblower do when he is told Natividad is approaching?
10. What is the stragegy that El Supremo lays out to Hornblower about conquest?
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