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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Polwheal asks Lady Barbara if she would like beef or what for dinner?
(a) pork
(b) lamb
(c) chicken
(d) fish

2. What does Hornblower order the surgeon to give to the wounded men?
(a) laudanum and rum
(b) tea and scones
(c) whiskey and bread
(d) morphine

3. Who replaced Hankey, the surgeon who died before the novel opened?
(a) Harper
(b) Whipple
(c) Dauson
(d) Laurie

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

5. Who is Brown?
(a) coxswain
(b) crewman
(c) master's mate
(d) botswain's mate

Short Answer Questions

1. It was Hornblower's duty to do what now?

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

3. When does the prosperous period of Hornblower's voyage conclude?

4. What had Hornblower been ordered to do with Lydia?

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

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