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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a look-out spot below them?
(a) A French soldier stopping to urinate.
(b) Two hundred British soldiers.
(c) A deer.
(d) A woman who is injured.

2. What do Sharpe and Harper find in other cottages?
(a) Mutilated and tortured Spaniards.
(b) Cowering civilians.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Food and water.

3. Where does Runciman say he spent some time in the army?
(a) Ireland.
(b) North Africa.
(c) India.
(d) Prussia.

4. What goes over a cliff in Harper's story?
(a) A bullock.
(b) A lamb.
(c) His wagon.
(d) A horse.

5. What does Loup swear to Sharpe?
(a) He will get revenge.
(b) That the village was empty when they came upon it.
(c) His men can do what they want, it's war.
(d) He did not tell his men to commit any crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why will de Elia be meeting Loup?

2. What does Guy Loup demand of Sharpe?

3. How does de Elia feel towards Loup?

4. Why does Lord Kiely take offense at Sharpe when they first meet?

5. What are the four French soldiers that ride up to the village carrying?

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