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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Lady Barbara take up residence aboard Lydia, displacing the person who resided there before?
(a) In 1st Lieutenant Bush's cabin
(b) in surgeon, Laurie's cabin
(c) in Polwheal, Hornblower's steward's cabin
(d) in Captain Hornblower's cabin

2. What did Lady Barbara say they needed in the cockpit?
(a) prayer
(b) fresh air
(c) warm food for the wounded
(d) sterilized surgical instruments

3. What card game did Hornblower like to play?
(a) poker
(b) bridge
(c) canasta
(d) whist

4. What was the indication that Lydia could only just hold in check the water coming aboard through the holes shot in her hull?
(a) clear white water gushed from the pumps
(b) the men were tired of manning the pumps
(c) the ship sat lower in the water
(d) there was water on deck

5. What did Hornblower feel bred mutiny?
(a) lack of food
(b) a long period of rough seas
(c) long, idle days
(d) boredom

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Polwheal?

2. Why was time of utmost importance in repairing Lydia to sail home?

3. In the restocking of Lydia, what did Hernandez provide instead of flour?

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

5. How many casualties did Lydia suffer in the battle with Natividad?

(see the answer key)

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