Flying Colours | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapters 1 and 2

1. Where is Captain Horatio Hornblower languishing?

In a Spanish prison.

2. What is the name of the ship Hornblower loses?

Sutherland.

3. What is the year?

1810.

4. What rank are Bush and Brown?

A First Lieutenant and Coxswain.

5. What can Hornblower see from his daily walks?

The ruined and dismasted wreck of his ship.

6. What is the casualty count for Hornblower's crew?

Two thirds of her crew are killed or wounded.

7. How many French vessels does Hornblower destroy or incapacitate?

4.

8. What is remarkable about Hornblower and the battle?

He escapes uninjured.

9. How is Bush injured?

He loses a foot.

10. What is disgraceful about the French behavior after the English strike their colors?

The French robbed the English.

11. What is the condition of Hornblower's sword when it is returned?

Hilt-less tang and the blade's gilding...
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