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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ducos point out Guy Loup to Juanita de Elia?
(a) When he is in the hallway.
(b) When he rides into the courtyard.
(c) When he is taking the steps into the building.
(d) When he is at a banquet.

2. What happened to the gatehouse where the Real Compañía Irlandesa officers were billeted?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It was burned down.
(c) It was pounded with a ram.
(d) All of its windows were broken.

3. Why is Sharpe chastising himself about the battle?
(a) He should have been in the gatehouse.
(b) He should have saved more of the Portuguese.
(c) He did not see what a trap the barracks was.
(d) He did not think Loup would attack.

4. What does Donaju ask Sharpe about Kiely's suicide?
(a) If Sharpe had heard about it.
(b) If Sharpe knew Kiely was going to do it.
(c) If Sharpe knew where Kiely had done it.
(d) If Father Sarsfield had talked to the men about it.

5. What does Sharpe tell the men about dead deserters?
(a) The Spanish will go after their families also.
(b) The Spanish will not tolerate it.
(c) The British will execute them.
(d) Loup is doing that to them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Massena react towards the split British army?

2. What does Sharpe tell Oliveira about the Real Compañía Irlandesa?

3. How many men desert from the Real Compañía Irlandesa the first night?

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

5. Who helps the British drive the French out during the French's first attack at the village?

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