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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of military leader is Farthingdale?
(a) About average.
(b) Flawless.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) Slow thinking.

2. What kind of evidence is around the town?
(a) Evidence of starvation and lack of water.
(b) Of destruction of many buildings.
(c) Evidence of murder, torture and mass rape.
(d) Evidence of theft of British army material.

3. Who escapes that upsets Sharpe?
(a) Hakeswill.
(b) No one.
(c) Josefina.
(d) Pot-au-Fea.

4. What do Sharpe and Harper look at when surveying the convent?
(a) Where the nuns might be hidden.
(b) For any tunnel out of the convent.
(c) The beautiful art.
(d) Look at it for tactical defense.

5. What does Sharpe think of the situation as he watches the action?
(a) It is desperate.
(b) If is all right.
(c) They will win eventually.
(d) It is a draw.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharpe receive from the person in question #14?

2. What kind of weapon does Sharpe find in the basement?

3. What does Farthingdale wonder about the French?

4. What begins to arrive after Sharpe and his group have the hostages?

5. What happens as the British forces are scrambling over the castle's outer walls?

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