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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kearsey worry the Spanish will do if they do not receive the gold?
(a) Refuse to support the British.
(b) Pull out of the territories they are holding.
(c) Attack British isolated pockets of troops.
(d) Nothing.

2. Who saved Lawford's life seven years earlier?
(a) Ayres.
(b) Sharpe.
(c) Knowles.
(d) Harper.

3. Who is Lieutenant Colonel William Lawford?
(a) Sharpe's commander.
(b) The commander of the Provosts.
(c) The commander of the 9th heavy artillery.
(d) Sharpe's brother-in-law.

4. Why does Sharpe have suspicions about Kearsey?
(a) He seems shifty.
(b) He changes his story several times.
(c) He has a strange accent.
(d) Because of Hogan.

5. Where is most of the ammunition stored in Almeida?
(a) A vault in the cemetary.
(b) The armory.
(c) In several deep caves in the surrounding hills.
(d) The cathedral.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Kearsey performance as a guide?

2. Against what are the French well fortified?

3. Who is Major Kearsey?

4. Who do Harper and Sharpe capture?

5. What does Keasey want to tell the Spanish?

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