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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a section of a wall falls what does Sharpe do?
(a) Surrenders the fort.
(b) Slips out of the fort during the night.
(c) Requests a parlay.
(d) Sends his men into the forest.

2. Who does Sharpe visit before leaving on his mission?
(a) Colonel Hogan.
(b) Captain Southerby.
(c) Colonel Smithwood.
(d) Major Jones.

3. What kind of thoughts of Jane trouble Sharpe?
(a) That she'll find another man.
(b) That she's with child.
(c) That she'll miss him.
(d) That she'd dead or dying.

4. Why can't the Marines do the mission Sharpe is assigned?
(a) There are no Marines in the area.
(b) The Marines are back on the peninsula.
(c) The Marines are sick with fever.
(d) The Marines are going elsewhere.

5. What is Sharpe ordered to do?
(a) Assassinate the French general.
(b) Take out a French man-of-war.
(c) Slip behind the French line and poison their water source.
(d) Capture a fortress that is said to be ill-guarded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colonel Favier parlay with Sharpe about?

2. What does Colonel Elphinstone say about Sharpe due to the mission he is assigned?

3. What would happen if Bampfylde left Teste de Buch?

4. What does British intelligence do to the Comte de Maquerre?

5. What does Bampfylde think Killick is?

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