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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summary Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tarrant want Sharpe's greencoats to do?
(a) Guard the ammunition wagons.
(b) Guard Tarrant and his staff.
(c) Report to the colonel in charge of defending the village.
(d) Join the troops in the south.

2. How do they know who the man is who saved them?
(a) They never found out.
(b) It was the man assigned to guard that area.
(c) They found the man's tobacco tin.
(d) Loup left the man hanging from a tree.

3. What does Hogan tell Wellington about the French forces?
(a) They are being loaded on ships.
(b) Several nearby have come together.
(c) They are leaving the area.
(d) They are heading towards Madrid.

4. How many men desert from the Real Compañía Irlandesa the first night?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Two.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Eleven.

5. What does Sharpe tell Oliveira about the Real Compañía Irlandesa?
(a) Why they came to San Isidoro.
(b) That they will be leaving San Isidoro soon.
(c) That they are probably traitors to Spain.
(d) That they are great soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what person does Harper tell a story?

2. What makes Sharpe change his mind about ignoring the small settlement below them?

3. How much help is Sergeant Harper to Sharpe?

4. What are the two Frenchmen in the village doing when Sharpe arrives?

5. What does Wellington think about his decision to send part of his army south?

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