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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Happy Return.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does El Supremo plan to do?
(a) sail with an army to capture the capital of Nicaragua
(b) visit England
(c) capture treasure ships
(d) capture Lydia

2. What did Hornblower tell the Spanish officer who boarded Lydia when Lydia was headed for Panama?
(a) that he was returning to England
(b) that he had lost one-third of his crew
(c) that he was headed for the Pearl Islands
(d) that he had sunk Natividad

3. As the last section of the novel. "The Happy Return", opens with whom is Lady Barbara talking in the moonlight beside the traffrail?
(a) Hornblower
(b) Lieutenant Bush
(c) Gerard
(d) Hebe

4. What were the huts that Hornblower saw on his way to the palace made of?
(a) local volcanic stone
(b) palmettos
(c) wood
(d) mud

5. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?
(a) 25
(b) 19
(c) 17
(d) 20

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornblower order the surgeon to give to the wounded men?

2. Why does Hornblower think he was selected for this mission?

3. How many years had Sir James Saumarez spent at sea?

4. What had Hornblower remembered to do for his crew before sending them into action?

5. Who is Brown?

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