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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Happy Return.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The freakishness of the weather of Cape Horn allowed Lady Barbara to do what?
(a) stay in her hammock all day
(b) descend to the cable tier
(c) invited Hornblower and the officers for a game of whist
(d) to take air on deck

2. Where exactly in South America was Hornblower expected to open trade for England?
(a) across the Isthmus of Darien
(b) in Ecuador
(c) in the whole west coast of South America
(d) in Peru

3. What season did Lydia leave behind?
(a) the Antipodean summer
(b) the Antipodean winter
(c) the Antipodean spring
(d) the Antipodean autumn

4. What does Hernandez mean by "unenlightened" men?
(a) men who have never attended school
(b) non-religious men
(c) men who cannot read
(d) men who deny El Supremo's divinity

5. What did Sir James Saumarez, who received Hornblower in his flagship, look like?
(a) He was tall and spare with white hair
(b) He was big and burly
(c) He was thin with a receding hair line
(d) He was short and fat and balding

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Maria, Hornblower's wife look like after she had dressed for bed?

2. What strange fancies did Hornblower have after nearly a year cooped up in the Lydia?

3. Where does Lady Barbara take up residence aboard Lydia, displacing the person who resided there before?

4. What were the huts that Hornblower saw on his way to the palace made of?

5. What difficulty does Hornblower encounter after his visit with the Viceroy and his return to Lydia?

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