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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who replaced Hankey, the surgeon who died before the novel opened?
(a) Dauson
(b) Laurie
(c) Whipple
(d) Harper

2. How do El Supremos' officers quell the crew after they take over Natividad?
(a) withhold food for three days
(b) execute a hesitant boy
(c) threaten that any crewman who disobeys must walk the plank
(d) tie a disobedient crewsman to the mast

3. What had Hornblower been ordered to do with Lydia?
(a) stay out of sight until arrival at the Gulf of Fonseca
(b) use it to immmedately take Natividad
(c) sink it rather than surrender
(d) hand it over to El Supremo

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

5. What was the only land Hornblower had had a glimpse of during the seven-month voyage?
(a) the Falkand islands
(b) Argentina
(c) Cape Fear
(d) Cape Horn

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Crespo do that shocked the Spanish sailing master and his mates?

2. What made the whole crew of Lydia spring into action on approaching Natividad?

3. What does Captain Hornblower do at the same time every morning?

4. How many months at sea were they without touching land?

5. Hornblower had been how many years at sea?

(see the answer key)

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