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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the British Admiralty want to use the Spanish possessions?
(a) to use them to send British convicts there for imprisonment
(b) to moor their ships in the harbors
(c) for British commerce and trade
(d) to establish British settlements

2. What was the grim nemesis awaiting men with open wounds in those pre-antiseptic days?
(a) typhoid fever
(b) gangrene
(c) tentanus
(d) amputation

3. What does Hornblower learn from the communiques handed him by the men who come aboard?
(a) Hornblower is ordered to return to England
(b) Hornblower is under arrest for handing Natividad to El Supremo
(c) Hornblower and his crew are invited to a dinner on shore
(d) Spain is now England's ally

4. What had Hornblower remembered to do for his crew before sending them into action?
(a) thank them for their loyal service
(b) send them to breakfast to have full bellies going into action
(c) gave them a talk on loyalty to the Crown
(d) remind them they had had seven months of heavy drilling

5. What request did Hornblower make of El Supremo?
(a) to untie the "unenlightened" men he had staked in the sun
(b) to come to dinner aboard the Lydia
(c) to sail with him to Panama
(d) to re-stock Lydia with food, water and other necessities

Short Answer Questions

1. How many decks did the Spanish ship Natividad have?

2. Who is Brown?

3. Where does Hornblower conclude Lydia has made perfect landfall?

4. What did the letter the Spaniard handed Hornblower contain?

5. What did Lady Barbara say they needed in the cockpit?

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