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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. What is the Helmund transporting?
(a) Reinforcements.
(b) Livestock.
(c) Gold bullion.
(d) Slaves.
2. How does Johnson come across to Hornblower?
(a) As a very bright and articulate man.
(b) As an illiterate and ignorant man, scarcely more than a savage idiot.
(c) As a wily fox.
(d) As formal and disapproving.
3. About what is Hooper furious?
(a) The cost of the search party.
(b) The way Hornblower humiliates Lucy.
(c) The way Mr. Hough treats Hornblower.
(d) The way Hornblower demands a pardon for the pirates.
4. What happens to the Helmond's artillery guns?
(a) They are offloaded several days earlier.
(b) They were sunk so the rebels could not use them.
(c) They are still on the Helmond.
(d) They are given to the Spanish forces.
5. Why does Hornblower swim across a river?
(a) He does so on a dare by some of the young women.
(b) He is dumped in there to help him cool down after fainting.
(c) He is dumped in the river by the Estrella captain to wake up Hornblower.
(d) He is forced to by his kidnappers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Hornblower learn from his wife, Barbara, about Ramsbottom?
2. What happens after they ship fires a few more times?
3. What does Hornblower's ship come about as he is cruising the coast?
4. What do Hornblower and Ramsbottom spend several evenings doing?
5. Where is Hornblower taken when he returns?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where do Hornblower and Spendlove figure they are?
2. Who has kidnapped Hornblower and Spendlove and what are the demands?
3. Describe Hornblower's capture and journey to the cliffs.
4. What do the pirates decide to do about the delivery of the letter and how does Hornblower react?
5. Who does Hornblower meet ashore at Puerto Cabello and what ensues while Hornblower is ashore?
6. Who appears at breakfast and how does he get there?
7. Describe the dinner aboard the Bride of Abydos and the new "invention" that may revolutionize shipboard fare.
8. How does Hornblower manage to avoid a confrontation with Spanish and Dutch officials and where does Hornblower go from Puerto Cabello?
9. Describe the strike on the pirate's redoubt and the outcome.
10. What does Hornblower do to keep the various authorities in the area from being upset at Hornblower and the English?
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