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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Hornblower write a brief letter?
(a) On his linen shirt.
(b) On the flyleaf of a book.
(c) On the bark of a tree.
(d) On a scrap of paper.

2. What do Hornblower and Ramsbottom spend several evenings doing?
(a) Playing bridge.
(b) Playing whist.
(c) Playing darts.
(d) Playing chess.

3. What do they have to do when the boat grounds?
(a) Carry the mortar on foot.
(b) Dam the river to make the water rise.
(c) Carry the mortar around the shallows.
(d) Set up a line of defense there.

4. Where does Hornblower decide to sail?
(a) To Peru.
(b) To Venezuela.
(c) To England.
(d) Back to his home base.

5. To where does the Clorinda return?
(a) Cuernavaca.
(b) Curaçao
(c) Puerto Cabello.
(d) Puerto Rico.

6. How does Lucy Hough greet Hornblower?
(a) Effusive and confused.
(b) With disdain.
(c) With veiled hostility.
(d) With indifference.

7. Who engages Hooper and Hornblower in animated conversation?
(a) The French ambassador.
(b) The Portuguese ambassador.
(c) Dutch and Spanish ministers.
(d) Ramsbottom.

8. What does Lucy do when she next sees Hornblower?
(a) Gets hysterical and asks about Spendlove.
(b) Slaps him for abandoning Spendlove.
(c) Admits her love and devotion for him.
(d) Nothing.

9. Where are Hornblower, Hooper and several others invited to dine?
(a) At the Gentleman's club to which Ramsbottom belongs.
(b) Aboard Ramsbottom's yacht.
(c) At Ramsbottom's rented mansion in Jamaica.
(d) At an invitations-only dining restaurant.

10. Where does Hornblower think he is?
(a) Sunburst County.
(b) Cockpit Country.
(c) San Juan.
(d) Pitfall County.

11. What does Hornblower find distasteful about the word millionaire?
(a) That so much importance is attached to one's financial status as to determine a person's worth for marriage.
(b) The word being applied to an individual.
(c) The fact that some men have so much money.
(d) He has never heard the word before, so he has no reaction to it.

12. How does Hornblower confound the foreign embassies and get them off his ship?
(a) By telling them he will not hesitate to fire upon their vessels.
(b) By giving them many contradictory statements.
(c) Using his command of rhetoric and dialogue.
(d) He is unwilling to speak to the officials when the boat over to the Clorinda.

13. What does Hooper flatly reject?
(a) A rescue party.
(b) Permission for Lucy to marry Spendlove.
(c) A visa for the Clorinda to stay in port longer.
(d) A pardon for the pirates.

14. Who comes into the room when Hooper and Hornblower are having breakfast?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Captain Fell.
(c) Spendlove.
(d) Mr. Hough.

15. What does Hornblower climb?
(a) The mast of the Clorinda to show new recruits how to do so.
(b) The balustrade inside the ball room to retrieve a cat.
(c) The garden wall.
(d) A dangling rope ladder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Simón Bolívar?

2. Where is Hornblower taken when he returns?

3. Where does Hornblower have the Clorinda's mortar mounted?

4. Why won't any of the men take the letter to the governor?

5. Who is Ned Johnson?

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