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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Richard Sharpe and his troops' dilemma at the beginning of the book?
(a) They have no ammunition.
(b) They are lost.
(c) They are surrounded.
(d) They have no food.

2. What are the two Frenchmen in the village doing when Sharpe arrives?
(a) Killing the Spanish men.
(b) Burning the houses.
(c) Raping a young woman.
(d) Sleeping off a drunk.

3. Why is Father Sarsfield impressed with Sharpe?
(a) Sharpe can pick locks.
(b) Sharpe has captured a French eagle.
(c) Sharpe is known as a famous swordsman.
(d) Sharpe came up through the ranks.

4. What makes Sharpe change his mind about ignoring the small settlement below them?
(a) Watching the French leave only fifteen men.
(b) Hearing a woman scream.
(c) To see if he can find out the name of the village.
(d) Deciding there might be food there.

5. What does a look-out spot below them?
(a) A deer.
(b) A French soldier stopping to urinate.
(c) Two hundred British soldiers.
(d) A woman who is injured.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ducos plan to do with the British forces?

2. What does Loup swear to Sharpe?

3. What is the name of the Lieutenant who is with Sharpe?

4. What does Sharpe decide to do to the two French prisoners?

5. What position will Colonel Claud Runciman fill with the Real Compañía Irlandesa?

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