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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Maquerre supposed to tell Sharpe?
(a) Bordeaux has already rebelled.
(b) Bordeaux is waiting for him.
(c) Bordeaux has been fortified.
(d) Bordeaux has been wiped out.

2. Why has Wigram attached another man to Sharpe's forces?
(a) To keep tabs on Sharpe.
(b) He has medical skills.
(c) He knows the area well.
(d) To force the issue of a march on Bordeaux.

3. With what is Jane ill when Sharpe leaves on his mission?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Allergies.
(c) A bad cold.
(d) Dysentery and a coughing fever.

4. Of what unit does Sharpe assume command?
(a) Company of mixed calvery and infantry.
(b) Royal Rifles Company C.
(c) Royal naval assault team.
(d) Royal American Rifles.

5. What does Sharpe do the day after the fort was captured?
(a) Marches inland.
(b) Rests his men.
(c) Returns to the river.
(d) Marches down the coast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the French want Bampfylde to do?

2. What do the British decide they need to divert the French from the bridge site?

3. Who is leading the British forces at the beginning of this novel?

4. Why does Bampfylde order Sharpe's rifle companies to get some rest?

5. What does Killick say to Sharpe about hanging sailors?

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