Beat to Quarters | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - The Prosperous Voyage

1. How many guns does the H.M.S. Lydia have on board?

2. The novel takes place during what war?

3. What does Captain Hornblower do at the same time every morning?

4. How fast does Lydia travel in light airs?

5. How far above the deck is the foremast gallant top?

6. Which of the crew likes to rap the seamen with his rattan cane?

7. What did Hornblower feel bred mutiny?

8. How many months at sea were they without touching land?

9. What had Hornblower resolved to do on this voyage that he hadn't done previously?

10. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?

11. Who was the first...
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