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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 was Hornblower wearing when the salutes were rolling round the bay?
(a) elaborate full dress
(b) shabby full dress
(c) his daily Naval attair
(d) his skivvies

2. How did the British Admiralty want to use the Spanish possessions?
(a) to establish British settlements
(b) to use them to send British convicts there for imprisonment
(c) to moor their ships in the harbors
(d) for British commerce and trade

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

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

5. What other communique was handed to Hornblower by the Spaniards who boarded Lydia?
(a) a dinner invitation to come ashore and dine with Spanish officials
(b) a letter condemning Hornblower for handing Natividad to El Supremo
(c) a letter with detailed plans on how to recapture Natividad
(d) a letter from Lady Barbara requesting return passage to England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Polwheal?

2. What season did Lydia leave behind?

3. What was the habit of Hornblower to do after he had taken the noon sights?

4. What was irksome to the Spanish officer after he had denied Lydia's dropping anchor on the Spanish Main?

5. What does Lydia sight after a few days ?

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