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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 won't any of the men take the letter to the governor?
(a) Fear of imprisonment.
(b) They think Johnson will double cross them.
(c) Too hard a walk.
(d) They think Johnson will tell the governor about the meeting between Lucy and Hornblower.

2. For what activity does Ramsbottom have a penchant?
(a) Rugby.
(b) Hurley.
(c) Polo.
(d) Yachting in the military style.

3. Who is Ned Johnson?
(a) The leader of a band of ruffians.
(b) A liberated slaves off a slave ship.
(c) A former member of a pirate band.
(d) Mr. Hough's butler.

4. 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) A dangling rope ladder.
(d) The garden wall.

5. What does Hornblower spend his time doing during the next two weeks after the dinner with Ramsbottom?
(a) Drilling his squadron on the open seas.
(b) Recovering from malaria.
(c) Working through a pile of paperwork before leaving Jamaica.
(d) Recovering from yellow fever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hornblower decide to sail?

2. What does Hooper order?

3. What does Spendlove do as he recovers?

4. What happens after they ship fires a few more times?

5. Why does Hornblower swim across a river?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what do the men converse while dining on the Bride of Aybados?

2. Describe the dinner aboard the Bride of Abydos and the new "invention" that may revolutionize shipboard fare.

3. Describe Ned Johnson.

4. What does Hornblower do once he reaches Puerto Cabello?

5. Who appears at breakfast and how does he get there?

6. What does Hornblower learn on his tour of the Bride of Abydos and what is his reaction?

7. What does Hornblower learn from the Dutch and Spanish ministers with whom he converses?

8. Describe the strike on the pirate's redoubt and the outcome.

9. Where do Hornblower and Spendlove figure they are?

10. Who does Hornblower meet ashore at Puerto Cabello and what ensues while Hornblower is ashore?

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