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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. How many months at sea were they without touching land?
(a) seven
(b) five
(c) six
(d) seven and a half
2. What is a chief characteristic of Hornblower?
(a) grandiosity
(b) arrogance
(c) timidity
(d) self-effacement
3. Why does Hornblower have the Spanish officers from Natividad shackled below on Lydia?
(a) to teach them the superiority of the English
(b) to hold them 'til their flogging
(c) to keep them from fighting back
(d) to save them from being executed by El Supremo
4. What had Hornblower been ordered to do with Lydia?
(a) stay out of sight until arrival at the Gulf of Fonseca
(b) hand it over to El Supremo
(c) use it to immmedately take Natividad
(d) sink it rather than surrender
5. What did Hornblower do when he didn't know how to respond to something someone said?
(a) He lied
(b) He agreed with whatever was said
(c) He cleared his throat with a "Ha-----h'm"
(d) He blushed
Short Answer Questions
1. What had Hornblower resolved to do on this voyage that he hadn't done previously?
2. What does Hornblower see on his way to the palace?
3. What card game did Hornblower like to play?
4. What did Hornblower deplore about his body?
5. What made the whole crew of Lydia spring into action on approaching Natividad?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name three of the officers of H.M.S. Lydia and their ranks.
2. 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?
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 does Hornblower see on his way to El Supremo's palace?
5. What is the stragegy that El Supremo lays out to Hornblower about conquest?
6. Describe the actual battle that ensues after Lydia takes Navtividad by surprise?
7. What appears on the beach the morning after Hornblower's visit to El Supremo's palace?
8. Describe Captain Hornblower's appearance?
9. What does El Supremo demand upon boarding Natividad and why is it meaningless?
10. What is the strategy Hornblower devises to capture Natividad, though it is larger and has more guns than the Lydia has?
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