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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. Who is Sergeant Horatio Havercamp?
(a) One of the enlisted men at the train station.
(b) Sharpe's best friend from when he was young.
(c) The second battalion's recruiter.
(d) Patrick Harper's best friend.

2. What does Sharpe decide to do?
(a) Decline the meeting with the nobleman.
(b) Travel posthaste to London.
(c) Return back to France immediately.
(d) Call upon the nobleman and ask for his assistance.

3. With whom does Sharpe have a discussion about his regiment?
(a) Lord Cornwallis.
(b) Patrick Harper.
(c) A prisoner named General Lafitte.
(d) Colonel Nairn.

4. What does Lynch do to Weller's dog?
(a) Makes it leave the island.
(b) Crushes it with his boot.
(c) Feeds it scraps.
(d) Throws it into the water to drown.

5. Who is Jane Gibbons?
(a) A ward of the former commanding officer of the South Essex.
(b) Sharpe's sister.
(c) Harper's sister.
(d) A camp follower.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what is Sharpe tutored?

2. Who is summoned to account for the missing battalion recruits?

3. Who is Patrick Harper?

4. What does a day's worth of recruiting yield?

5. Who does Girdwood hate?

(see the answer key)

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