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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many decks did the Spanish ship Natividad have?
(a) two
(b) one
(c) three
(d) four

3. Who was Gerard?
(a) the 3rd Lieutenant
(b) the handsome womanizing gunner
(c) the cook
(d) the half wit coxswain

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

5. Hornblower was ordered to form an alliance with whom in rebellion against Spain?
(a) Ship Captain Andrade
(b) Don Julian Alvarado
(c) Vice Admiral Don Cristobal de Crespo
(d) the Spaniards

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the cockpit?

2. Who is Gerard?

3. Who comes aboard Lydia in a small craft to speak with Hornblower?

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

5. Where could Hornblower replenish his supplies on the voyage home to England?

(see the answer key)

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