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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hornblower do when the Natividad is first sighted?
(a) fires the cannonades at Natividad
(b) hoists the sails
(c) calls a beat to quarters
(d) unconcernedly asks some officers to dinner and plays cards

2. What did Hornblower compare the cockpit to?
(a) the inside of a dark cave
(b) an orderly hospital room
(c) some canto in the Inferno
(d) his sickroom as a child

3. Who accompanies Lady Barbara ?
(a) Herbert, her native servant
(b) Hebe, her lascivious handmaid
(c) Margaret, her sister
(d) Carmen, her South American girlfriend

4. Who is Gerard?
(a) 2nd lieutenant
(b) steward
(c) the ship's surgeon
(d) warrant officer

5. What is the cockpit?
(a) the area where the pumps are located
(b) the cook's area
(c) the surgeon's area
(d) the area where the coxswain resides

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the British Admiralty want to use the Spanish possessions?

2. What was El Supremo dressed in when presented to Hornblower aboard the Spanish lugger?

3. How long after sighting the Horn had Hornblower brought Lydia to her destination?

4. Hornblower is ordered to go to the palace of whom?

5. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?

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