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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Prosperous Voyage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the only land Hornblower had had a glimpse of during the seven-month voyage?
(a) Argentina
(b) the Falkand islands
(c) Cape Horn
(d) Cape Fear

2. Where does Hornblower conclude Lydia has made perfect landfall?
(a) on the coast of Ecuador
(b) on the Gulf of Fonseca
(c) on the Gulf of Sequia
(d) on the coast of Nicaragua

3. What had Hornblower resolved to do on this voyage that he hadn't done previously?
(a) drill the crew every day
(b) immediately punish any seaman who stepped out of line
(c) refrain from talkativeness and over-familiarity with the crew
(d) write daily in his ship's log

4. Why does Hornblower have the Spanish officers from Natividad shackled below on Lydia?
(a) to save them from being executed by El Supremo
(b) to keep them from fighting back
(c) to hold them 'til their flogging
(d) to teach them the superiority of the English

5. What does Hornblower see on his way to the palace?
(a) dead and near-dead men shackled in the sun
(b) a native wedding procession
(c) a herd of wild boar
(d) strange exotic foliage

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Crespo do that shocked the Spanish sailing master and his mates?

2. What made the whole crew of Lydia spring into action on approaching Natividad?

3. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?

4. What does El Supremo plan to do?

5. What did the burgoo the captain ate for breakfast consist of?

(see the answer key)

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