View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What infests the ship formerly named the Gaditana while the Spanish prisoners are on board?
(a) Fleas, lice, and bedbugs.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Rats.

2. It becomes known to the reader that Whiting ________ during the prisoners' rebellion.
(a) Kills Colonel Ortega.
(b) Deserts.
(c) Is thrown overboard.
(d) Dies.

3. Who does Admiral Parry bring with him to the game tables at Long Rooms?
(a) A Flag Lieutenant.
(b) A Colonel of the Infantry.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Admiral Lambert.

4. Who does Bush send to tell Hornblower that the gun was unbushed?
(a) Wellard.
(b) Abbott.
(c) James.
(d) Sadley.

5. Who says, "No peace for the wicked"?
(a) Bush.
(b) Buckland.
(c) Hornblower.
(d) Whiting.

6. The women prisoners on board the ship are kept on the _______________.
(a) Poop.
(b) Steerage.
(c) Quarterdeck.
(d) Maindeck.

7. Which shipman can speak and understand Spanish?
(a) Bush.
(b) Clive.
(c) Buckland.
(d) Hornblower.

8. Hornblower resides at ___________________.
(a) Keppel's Head.
(b) Highbury Street.
(c) The Navy Office.
(d) The Long Rooms.

9. A pending war with France would mean _______________.
(a) There would be cutbacks for the Royal Navy.
(b) There would need to be a draft of soldiers.
(c) The re-expansion of the Royal Navy.
(d) The country would go further into debt.

10. Bush hadn't been to the Kingston station in _____ years.
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

11. Who wins the last hand of whist?
(a) Admiral Parry and Hornblower.
(b) Hornblower and the Colonel.
(c) Admiral Lambert and the Colonel.
(d) It is a tie.

12. What does Bush determine about Hornblower after their discussion?
(a) Hornblower was a very brilliant young officer.
(b) Hornblower was a very promising young officer.
(c) Hornblower was a whippersnapper of an officer.
(d) Hornblower was a very misguided young officer.

13. The Spanish officer with a white flag who approaches the English-taken fort is __________________.
(a) The Spanish Captain-General.
(b) Unknown.
(c) Villaneuva.
(d) Colonel Orega.

14. Bush lives in a cottage with _________________.
(a) His mother and father.
(b) His sisters.
(c) No one.
(d) His wife.

15. What is the British currency prior to the use of "dirty notes"?
(a) Silver pieces.
(b) The Florin.
(c) Pound sterling.
(d) Golden guineas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower do while at the Long Rooms?

2. What is the first concern of the previously-mentioned Spanish officer?

3. _____ is made commander of the ship formerly named La Gaditana.

4. __________ is the name of the servant at the Long Rooms.

5. During the Court of Inquiry, Buckland is what?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 411 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample