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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 Hornblower see on his way to the palace?
(a) strange exotic foliage
(b) a herd of wild boar
(c) dead and near-dead men shackled in the sun
(d) a native wedding procession

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

3. What habit had Lady Barbara acquired in her forced loneliness?
(a) firting with the crew
(b) talking with herself
(c) writing long letters to England , though they couldn't be sent
(d) confiding in Hebe, her maid

4. Who was the first member of the crew to be publicly flogged?
(a) a red-headed Irishman who played the fiddle
(b) Lieutenant Samuel Simmonds
(c) Hornblower's steward, Polwheal
(d) Owen, a half-wit

5. What did the letter the Spaniard handed Hornblower contain?
(a) a formal prohibition for the Lydia to drop anchor in any port in Spanish America
(b) an invitation to drop anchor in Panama for repairs
(c) an invitation to a celebratory dinner ashore
(d) a congratualtion on Hornblower's success in sinking Natividad

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the British Admiralty want to use the Spanish possessions?

2. What did Hornblower do when he didn't know how to respond to something someone said?

3. What is the cockpit?

4. What was the indication that Lydia could only just hold in check the water coming aboard through the holes shot in her hull?

5. When Hornblower sights Natividad in the heavy weather, where does he send Wellesley for safety?

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