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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Major Dunnet tell Captain Murray about the lieutenant?
(a) He is incompetent.
(b) He is not a real officer.
(c) The lieutenant is a great tactician.
(d) The lieutenant's men won't listen to him.

2. Where was Vivar when his wife died?
(a) In America.
(b) In Spain.
(c) In Britain.
(d) In France.

3. What does Sharpe advise Vivar not to do?
(a) Take cover in the woods.
(b) A frontal attack.
(c) Come from the left flank.
(d) Charge the hill from the right flank.

4. What does Sharpe find out the night after the battle with the French?
(a) The French have taken Lisbon.
(b) The French have taken Santiago de Compostela.
(c) The Spanish army is only thrity miles away.
(d) The French have left Madrid.

5. What does Harper do the night of the battle?
(a) Rallies the men against going south.
(b) Gives Sharpe a formal apology.
(c) Challenges Sharpe to a duel.
(d) Gets drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams tell Sharpe that Vivar has told Williams about the strongbox?

2. What does Sharpe advise George to do?

3. Who is killed when the French assault the farmhouse?

4. By what title does Major Warren Dunnet address the lieutenant in Chapter 1?

5. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to do?

(see the answer key)

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