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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 did Lady Barbara react when Hornblower refused her further advances?
(a) She was humiliated
(b) She was unrelenting in her attempts to woo him
(c) She was heart-broken
(d) She was in a cold rage

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

3. What does Captain Hornblower do on the same day Lady Barbara invited him to breakfast?
(a) He writes a long thank-you letter to Lady Barbara
(b) He takes a small boat to shore to investigate the terrain
(c) He goes to bed early , exhausted by his encounter with Lady Barbara
(d) He invites Lady Barbara and some officers to dinner and cards

4. How many years did Sir James Saumarez spend in continuous warfare?
(a) sixteeen
(b) eighteen
(c) fourteen
(d) twelve

5. What did Lady Barbara find it hard to believe?
(a) that men had ever succeeded in sailing a ship westward round the Horn
(b) that Spain was now the ally of England
(c) that Lydia was finally out of enemy waters
(d) that she had survived the tip on board Lydia

Short Answer Questions

1. With what country had Spain recently sided against England?

2. As the last section of the novel. "The Happy Return", opens with whom is Lady Barbara talking in the moonlight beside the traffrail?

3. A how-many-gun salute does El Supremo demand he have on boarding Lydia?

4. What was the grim nemesis awaiting men with open wounds in those pre-antiseptic days?

5. What had Hornblower been ordered to do with Lydia?

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