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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lady Barbara find it hard to believe?
(a) that Spain was now the ally of England
(b) that men had ever succeeded in sailing a ship westward round the Horn
(c) that Lydia was finally out of enemy waters
(d) that she had survived the tip on board Lydia

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

3. How do El Supremos' officers quell the crew after they take over Natividad?
(a) threaten that any crewman who disobeys must walk the plank
(b) withhold food for three days
(c) execute a hesitant boy
(d) tie a disobedient crewsman to the mast

4. Among all the ships in the harbor of St. Helena there were Indiamem and what others?
(a) tall ships
(b) frigates
(c) luggers
(d) Men o' war

5. What features of the landscape do they always see when sailing along the coast?
(a) bananna trees
(b) pink sand beaches
(c) volcanic peaks
(d) snow-peaked mountains

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Crystal do to raise the wind because of Lady Barbara's eagerness to reach St. Helena?

3. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?

4. What does Hornblower see on his way to the palace?

5. How many dead British seamen are collected and interred to the sea?

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