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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Bush injured during the battle with Natividad?
(a) his eye is put out by a flying splinter
(b) both his legs are smashed below the knees
(c) one of his arms is blown off
(d) his forehead is cut by a falling block

2. Who comes aboard Lydia in a small craft to speak with Hornblower?
(a) Hernandez Lopez
(b) Manuel Hernandez
(c) Don Juan
(d) El Suprempo

3. How far above the deck is the foremast gallant top?
(a) 125' above the deck.
(b) 140' above the deck.
(c) 40' above the deck.
(d) 130' above the deck.

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

5. Hornblower is ordered to go to the palace of whom?
(a) Hernando Alvarez
(b) Manuel Hernandez
(c) Jesus de Natividad
(d) El Supremo

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hornblower have the Spanish officers from Natividad shackled below on Lydia?

2. What did Hornblower tell the Spanish officer who boarded Lydia when Lydia was headed for Panama?

3. Where does Lady Barbara take up residence aboard Lydia, displacing the person who resided there before?

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

5. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?

(see the answer key)

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