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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accompanies Lady Barbara ?

2. Who was Howell?

3. What was the chief fear Hornblower had going into battle?

4. How many dead British seamen are collected and interred to the sea?

5. What does Lydia sight after a few days ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Lady Barbara does in the cockpit.

2. What is Hornblower supposed to do before dealing with Natividad?

3. Describe Lady Barbara Wellesley's physical appearance?

4. What is Hornblower decked out in when he goes ashore at Panama?

5. After a fierce sea battle , both ships severely damaged, what does Hornblower do?

6. What is Hornblower instructed to do by the Spanish officers who boarded Lydia?

7. Who accompanies Lady Barbara?

8. Who seeks passage aboard Lydia and why?

9. After being refused safe harbor at Panama, what does Hornblower do?

10. What does El Supremo hope to do with Natividad?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe how Lady Barbara nurses the wounded and dying in the cockpit of the ship.

2) Describe Lady Barbara's views on nursing. How do they differ from the view most people today hold of nursing? Why isn't Lady Barbara another Florence Nightingale?

3) How does Lady Barbara's behavior as a nurse change when Galbraith lies dying . What is touching about this encounter between Galbraith and Lady Barbara?

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Why does a Spanish lugger once more approach the Lydia as it proceeds to sail homeward after its repairs are complete?

2) What is the surprise the Spaniards want to show Hornblower on their ship? Are you revolted with what they have done, as Hornblower is? Describe what Hornblower sees aboard their lugger.

3) Explain why you think what Hornblower sees aboard the Spanish ship haunts and depresses him when he returns to the Lydia and sails homeward.

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe what each of the two ships, the Lydia or the Natividad, does when it first sights the other. This is after disclosure that Spain is now England's ally and both ships know this.

2) Describe the part of the final sea battle between the Lydia and the Natividad which you find the most interesting.

3) Describe the outcome of the sea battle between the two ships and discuss what ramifications this outcome might have had.

4) Choose one of these three topics to write on.

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