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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. Why does Hornblower have the Spanish officers from Natividad shackled below on Lydia?
(a) to keep them from fighting back
(b) to teach them the superiority of the English
(c) to hold them 'til their flogging
(d) to save them from being executed by El Supremo

2. What does El Supremo plan to do?
(a) capture Lydia
(b) sail with an army to capture the capital of Nicaragua
(c) capture treasure ships
(d) visit England

3. What did Hornblower do upon sighting land?
(a) wrote a letter to the admiralty
(b) called the crew to the quarterdeck to celebrate with rum
(c) dressed in his best finery
(d) ordered a beat to quarters

4. A how-many-gun salute does El Supremo demand he have on boarding Lydia?
(a) 21
(b) 20
(c) 19
(d) 23

5. Who was Galbraith?
(a) steward, originally from Wales
(b) coxswain, originally from Ireland
(c) 3rd Lieutenant originally from Scotland
(d) helmsman

Short Answer Questions

1. In the restocking of Lydia, what did Hernandez provide instead of flour?

2. What does Hernandez mean by "unenlightened" men?

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

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

5. What does Captain Hornblower do at the same time every morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hornblower do with the captured officers and crew of Natividad?

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

3. 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?

4. What does El Supremo demand upon boarding Natividad and why is it meaningless?

5. Describe Alvarado whom Hornblower was ordered to help in a rebellion against Spain?

6. Describe Lydia, the ship Hornblower was a captain of.

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

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

9. Describe Captain Hornblower's appearance?

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

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