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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, 6, and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe think of the recent battle?
(a) It gives them a great advantage over the French.
(b) It is strategically insignificant and tactically pointless.
(c) It was essential to winning the war against Napoleon.
(d) Sharpe express no opinion about it.

2. How do Harper and Sharpe make their way through the countryside?
(a) Incognito as nobles.
(b) Borrowing from a governement secret agent.
(c) Poaching and doing odd jobs.
(d) On money from their prize catch.

3. What is the recruiter like who they encounter?
(a) Businesslike.
(b) Boorish.
(c) Likeable and persuasive.
(d) Hostile.

4. Who does Maggie Joyce send after Sharpe?
(a) A young girl.
(b) An assassin.
(c) A young boy.
(d) A bouncer.

5. Who is failing at his basic tasks?
(a) Colonel Nairn.
(b) Lieutenant Colonel Girdwood.
(c) Lord Fenner.
(d) Captail d'Alembord.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nairn think Sharpe should do?

2. Who is presented as slightly confused but enthusiastic about military matters?

3. Who does Girdwood hate?

4. What has been happening to the men who have been recruited for the second battalion?

5. What does Sharpe give Maggie?

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