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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many British casualties are there during the capturing of Natividad?
(a) not one
(b) three
(c) two
(d) four

2. What is the fate of Natividad?
(a) she goes up in flames, the sea swallowing her up
(b) she is captured by Lydia
(c) she returns to El Supremo
(d) she escapes into the night

3. What did Hornblower compare the cockpit to?
(a) some canto in the Inferno
(b) an orderly hospital room
(c) the inside of a dark cave
(d) his sickroom as a child

4. What was El Supremo dressed in when presented to Hornblower aboard the Spanish lugger?
(a) he was naked
(b) dirty rags
(c) an old Spanish uniform
(d) his finest regalia

5. What shocked Hornblower about the way the Spaniards treated El Supremo?
(a) that they spat on him
(b) that they didn't feed him
(c) they were going to hang him without his being able to make make peace with God
(d) that they laughed at him and he became their chief source of entertainment

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Hornblower fear Gerard would view his romance with Lady Barbara?

4. Where did Hornblower take Lydia to be repaired?

5. What is the cockpit?

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