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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What request did Hornblower make of El Supremo?
(a) to untie the "unenlightened" men he had staked in the sun
(b) to sail with him to Panama
(c) to re-stock Lydia with food, water and other necessities
(d) to come to dinner aboard the Lydia

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

4. A how-many-gun salute does El Supremo demand he have on boarding Lydia?
(a) 19
(b) 21
(c) 23
(d) 20

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the burgoo the captain ate for breakfast consist of?

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

3. How many decks did the Spanish ship Natividad have?

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

5. When would Hornblower be permitted to capture treasure ships in the Pacific?

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