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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 Lydia sight after a few days ?
(a) Natividad once more
(b) a Spanish ship flying a flag of truce
(c) prize ships to capture
(d) an island

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

3. How many casualties did Lydia suffer in the battle with Natividad?
(a) more than one third of her crew
(b) approximately one-quarter of her crew
(c) 45 seamen
(d) approximately one half of her crew

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

5. Where did Hornblower take Lydia to be repaired?
(a) a hidden cove of Panama
(b) the isle of Rosita
(c) the isle of Canabra
(d) the isle of Coiba

Short Answer Questions

1. How many British casualties are there during the capturing of Natividad?

2. Who replaced Hankey, the surgeon who died before the novel opened?

3. How does El Supremo view his subjects?

4. What is the cockpit?

5. What habit had Lady Barbara acquired in her forced loneliness?

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